Sometimes there’s more of the reward to helping people in just the satisfaction that you’re making someone’s life better than there is than the money behind it. Sure money is important but it’s not always everything. Rewarding Genealogy is a company that was established in 2005 and was founded by Terry Kohler to do just that. There are many…
Guest Authored by Paul Woodbury, Senior Genealogist, Legacy Tree Genealogists DNA is such a hot topic in ancestry and genealogy research lately. Have you taken a DNA test? Did you take the standard test or did you take one that goes deeper into the results? I recently conducted a blog interview with Legacy Tree Genealogists and they have provided…
Assuming you do genealogy research, you probably use more than one resource to find information on your ancestors. Do you use the popular genealogy websites to conduct research? Did you know that some of these websites have an agreement with a website that pulls in all your hints and possible matches in one place? Check this out!
If there is one thing that we know about our fellow human beings, it’s that we are all different. We all have different likes, dislikes, hobbies, occupations, physical traits, religious and political beliefs. The list is pretty limitless…. You might think genealogists have all one thing in common: finding their ancestors. That might be true but what you may…
Sometimes we all need a little help with our genealogy research. You might hit a brick wall with records not available online, a language you don’t understand, need access to geographic areas you can’t visit, or records are hiding in places you never thought to look. That’s when Legacy Tree Genealogists can help.
In the previous blog post “Storybooks that Introduce Children to Genealogy“, we introduced you to three genealogy books that speak directly to children at various age levels. Here is a book that takes a different approach to help adults get children interested in genealogy.
In genealogy, you may often hear people say “If only I paid more attention to *insert relative here* when they were alive”. While it wasn’t intentional, it’s just not something they thought about at the time.
In the Famicity blog “Paleography: The Study of Old Handwriting“, we explained what Paleography is and why it is important to genealogy research. Today, we’ll discuss a computer software program called Champollion 2.0 written by Christophe Marin that will be a featured at the Innovator Showdown at RootsTech 2017.
There is a name for every place and thing on a map. Have you ever wondered how the places and things that you see on a map got their name? Guillaume Valtat, a Geographic Information Engineer, explains Toponymy.
There are many organizations in the United States that focus on being a descendant of an event or group of people that holds a significant place in American History. One of the most prominent of these organizations is the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
