Genealogy News

Another Election Story

October 23, 2020 The upcoming election has sparked me to consider my ancestors’ politics. What parties did they belong to? How did they vote in the elections of their day? Voting records are one way…

An Election Story

October 16, 2020 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about finding election records for our ancestors. It’s a great idea, but for many of us, it’s not easy to put into practice. Since that time I’ve b…

ThruLines vs Theory of Relativity

October 9, 2020 For the last couple of weeks I’ve been devoting some time to Ancestry’s Thrulines and My Heritage’s Theory of Relativity. Essentially, both are ways to help users determine how t…

Finding and Using Voting Records

October 2, 2020 We’re just over a month from the 2020 elections, and many of us are focused on what the results will be and how they will impact the country. For those of us who are finding the tens…

September 25, 2020 Recently, Ancestry added a new feature called Story Scout. It is based on the family tree that an individual has posted on Ancestry as well as other family trees found on Ancestry a…

DNA Ethnicity Estimates at Various Testing Sites

September 18, 2020 One of my nieces took an autosomal DNA test a while ago. When I talked to her about it (hoping she was becoming more interested in genealogy), she said she only took the test becaus…

Finding School Records

September 11, 2020 School records are an often overlooked resource for genealogical information. There are a couple of reasons for this. Researchers often don’t even try to find school records becau…

Vertical Files

September 4, 2020 Like most genealogists, over the years I’ve made great finds in various repositories that helped fill in the blanks in my family tree. Some of those treasures are documents that I …

A Few More Good Books

August 28, 2020 Last week I wrote about a few books based on surprising DNA results. This week I thought I’d mention a few more books that deal with family history. They’re stories of an individua…

A Few Good Book

August 21, 2020 After nearly six months spending most of my time at home, I’m rapidly arriving at a point that I thought would be impossible: I’m actually losing my motivation to do genealogy. It�…

Ancestry Bought by Blackstone

August 14, 2020 For the last week or so the genealogy blogs have been full of the news that a 75% share of Ancestry was recently purchased by Blackstone, an investment group. Bloggers such as Judy Rus…

Using Online Trees to Add to your own Tree

August 7, 2020 At a genealogy society meeting a while ago, I heard something that made me gasp. Someone in the audience recommended that a good way to grow your family tree was to accept hints from a …

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