Had another great day at the Annual Conference of the African-American Historical and Genealogical Society today! This morning I did my 2nd presentation – one that discusses the potential of using WordPress for genealogy. If you know me, you know I love WordPress, so I was more than pleased to spend the time sharing it […]
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Today has been a great day – I attended my 1st genealogy conference! Well, my first physical attendance at one. I’ve been doing my family history research for about 8-9 years now and have not had the fortune of ever attending a conference in person. My family and work schedule is quite demanding so I
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Last night, PBS aired the 1st episode of their new series, “Genealogy Roadshow.” The first episode is now online for viewing if you missed it. The first episode was filmed here in my hometown of Nashville, TN and my husband and I actually auditioned for the show, though we didn’t end up making it on.
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Then you need to sign up for my upcoming, free webinar – “Genealogy News at Your Fingertips: From RSS Feeds to Digital Magazine Platforms.” I was honored to be selected to do this webinar as part of the Southern California Genealogical Society’s 2013 Jamboree Extension Series. The focus of the webinar is to guide
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Just last month I shared a successful connection story to a cousin of mine due to those Ancestry shaky leaves. Well, I’ve had another connection thanks to Ancestry and I’m so grateful! One day when I logged online, I saw that someone had been working on my first stepfather’s family tree, Donald Garner, and the
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If you are a regular reader of my blog, then you may know that I am a huge proponent for collaborative genealogy – specifically, platforms for working on family trees and genealogical information via shared tools where multiple contributors work together. Well, I recently stumbled across Wikipedia’s Visual Editor and it’s awesome! I have contributed
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Today has been a great day. I have been able to be in contact with a 2nd cousin of mine for a branch of my family for whom we have lost contact. And, she found me via those great Ancestry shaky leaves! Practically just like the commercial below: 🙂 She shared with me that she
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Yeah – Another potential family tree revelation from a 23andMe match! A few days ago, I was looking at one of my matches family trees and noticed he had the Boston surname on his tree. Boston is a surname in my family – one of my 3rd great-grandmothers was named Lovey Boston. To date, I
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FindMyPast has recently announced their partnership with the Allen County Public Library to revolutionize the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) – a database well known to many genealogists. PERSI is a fabulous resource in that the ACPL has, over the past 30 years, been indexing publications from genealogy society newsletters and journals. However, as great as
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Have you used Treelines.com yet? I would highly suggest checking it out – it’s a great site that allows you to create visually interesting stories. I learned about the site after learning that the site developer, Tammy Hepps, had won the 2013 Rootsweb Developer Challenge. Ever-so-ready to explore new tools, I quickly signed up for
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