Carol Stetser

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How Many Children Did Your Ancestors Have?

August 13, 2021 The other day I read a post on the American Ancestors blog Vita Brevis (by the New England Historic and Genealogical Society at https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2021/08/philoprogenitive-ancestors/ ) which dealt with philoprogenitive ancestry. The author, Christopher C. Child, mentioned that he didn’t know what the term meant when he ran across it on a Facebook …

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars – Worth a Watch!

August 6, 2021 If you haven’t taken advantage of genealogy webinars in the past, now is an especially good time to give them a try. For most of us, Covid has put paid to any idea of attending in-person seminars and even local genealogy society meetings (even those of us who are fully vaccinated are …

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Scandinavian Ancestors

July 30, 2021 If you’re lucky enough to have ancestors who came from Scandinavia, you might wonder what all the fuss is about when it comes to genealogy research. That is, unless not all of your ancestors came from Scandinavia, only part of them. In that case, you know how much more difficult it is …

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