Celebrating All of Today’s Living Generations
It’s believed that there are seven living generations of Americans. Let’s take a look at each generation, how they are defined and what they’ve experienced in their lives.
Tag: genealogy
Evidentia Software Helps You Organize Your Genealogy Research
Genealogy research can be a challenging but very rewarding hobby. We all have our reasons, methods and practices when it comes to research. The internet provides us with many tools to help us but errors happen, details are missed and sometimes we just need help organizing records. One great new tool I recently discovered is Evidentia. This blog interviews…
The Louisa Trask Research Project Continues…..
The struggle is real with this research project. In September of 2016, I introduced the blogging community to Louisa Trask in this blog.
Using Technology to Map the Lives of Our Ancestors
It’s not a genealogy research secret that census records are extremely helpful when learning about our ancestors. They provide names, relations, occupations and where they lived. If you can find the records, they also provide underlying details of where ancestors may have moved to throughout their lives. How do census records from the past work with resources of today such as…
These Family History Preservation Authors Knew What the Deal Was
Yesterday as I was browsing at a local antique store, I came across a book published in 1993 by authors Bob Greene and D. J. Fulford. This book, titled “To Our Children’s Children”, is a nice complement to our blog on Have the Talk of a Lifetime. While to some of us, 1993 wasn’t that long ago but it…
Split Your Family Tree
During your genealogy research and building your family tree, there might come a time when you might find it beneficial to split off specific branches to improve your research or to play around with different techniques without damaging your main tree. Splitting your family tree isn’t easy to do but it’s absolutely possible.
Old-School Genealogy Tips for Making Genealogy Easier
Genealogy and family history research somewhere. Many professionals will recommend starting with simply what you know. We all need some help now and then and we all could use a few tips for making genealogy easier! Here are some tips that you may not hear that often as a new researcher or a reminder for those more experienced.
Images That Perfectly Describe Family History and Research
Genealogy research has its positive and negative attributions. It’s fun to learn about family history but it can be equally frustrating when you don’t get the desired result. Here are a few gifs that can explain our emotions with family history research perfectly.
What is the Mayflower Society?
There are all kinds of heritage and genealogy societies. In 2016, we learned about the DAR, better known as the Daughters of the American Revolution. Today, we’ll learn about the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. A society of members who are confirmed descendants of those who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
Finding Humor in Genealogy Comics
Comic strips are a quick comedy relief found in the newspapers, online and other media sources. The Sunday paper was known to have a special expanded section for “The Funnies”. Often they’re just made up, just for fun snippets of the author’s imagination. Sometimes they are humorous reflections of a real-life situation. We all need comedy in our lives…
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