Genealogy News

Playing with My Heritage’s Photo Colorization Feature

February 23, 2020 Like a lot of other genealogists, I’ve spent the past couple of days uploading photos to My Heritage’s website. I have a large collection of black and white photos of my a…

Hints on Narrowing and Broadening Searches on Ancestry

February 14, 2020 Nearly every genealogist uses Ancestry.com for his/her research, but many of us are probably not using it as well as we might be. I volunteer at the local library for walk-in one-on-…

Elwood Usinger and GRIP

February 7, 2020 This time of year seems like the perfect time to begin new projects, including genealogy projects. With the holidays over and spring not here yet, it always seems like I have more tim…

Limitations of Death Certificates

January 31, 2020 One of the first records genealogists tend to want to locate for their ancestors is a death certificate. It seems like a no brainer since it usually contains information such as date …

Renewing Genealogy Society Memberships

January 24, 2020 Since most genealogy societies run their memberships on a calendar year, January is usually the time renew them. Within the last few weeks, I’ve received renewal reminders from seve…

Using the Family Search Catalog

January 17, 2020 Back in the days when many of the records held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City were found on microfilm, most researchers were familiar with the FamilySearch Catalog (h…

Waiting for 1950

January 10, 2020 Now that it’s 2020, it occurred to me that it’s only a little more than two years until the 1950 census will be released – on 1 April 2022, to be exact. While I know two years i…

A Sad Story – Finding Details in Newspaper Articles

January 3, 2020 On Sunday morning December 15, 1899, Jane Ann Terry left her younger sister, Edith, to watch over Jane Ann’s baby Fannie while she went to take care of some chores outside the house.…

A Research Trip to New Jersey

December 28, 2019 Last week I spent a few days in southern New Jersey doing research on my husband’s family. It’s the first real research trip I’ve taken for a while, and it reminded me how impo…

The Source that Got Away

December 21, 2019 Most folks who have been doing genealogy for a while probably have a story or two about mistakes they’ve made. These mistakes often involve neglecting to properly source informatio…

Relatives Around Me

December 13, 2019 Last week I attended the annual LCGS Holiday Party at Mimi’s Restaurant with about 40 other intrepid genealogists and their guests. We all had a nice dinner and a chance to talk so…

My Favorite Relatives: the Unmarried and the Childless

December 6, 2019 Does every genealogist have pet ancestors? I don’t know for sure, but I’ll bet that they do. For some reason certain ancestors catch our fancy, and we spend way more time research…

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