Are you tired of juggling numerous apps and tech products while delving into your family history? I totally understand the struggle. That’s why I want to share my streamlined “tech stack” with you, providing insights into the tools I rely on to boost my efficiency as I pursue my family history. The top 5 items […]
Streamlining the Genealogy Tech: My Top 5 Must-Haves Read More »
Are you still exploring the 1950 US Census? I am and I am sure I’m not the only one, right? There are many family members I still want to look up in it! I purposely waited until the indexing and review was complete via the FamilySearch initiative and it’s also fun to see those hints
1950 US Census Indexing – We Ranked 3rd! Read More »
Is FamilySearch one of your research “go-to” sources? FamilySearch, given the many records and features on the site (which are all free) is a must-have for my own personal genealogy research and I actively encourage you to take full advantage of it as well. Recently, FamilySearch has made updates to their New Person Page Profiles
3 Updates to FamilySearch Person Profiles Read More »
The US genealogy world has been waiting for this for 10 years! The release of a census is a big deal and we now get millions more data points to digest about our ancestors/relatives! A big part of the census experience is searching the index. The major index most will use is the one from
Here’s what I’ve learned from indexing my first 1000 names for the US 1950 Census! Read More »
Well, the day is here – it is “officially” the last day of the RootsTech Connect conference, the global family history event put on by FamilySearch. In years past, the conference has been a popular in-person event. I have not been able to attend in person, but I avidly followed along each year #NotAtRootsTech, trying
Let’s Crowdsource Newspaper Indexing – Let’s Do Good Together Read More »
Just back in June, I was elated to share the news that I’d been able to identify a set of my 5th great-grandparents. That finding was on my mother’s side of the family. And guess what? In the past week, I have identified TWO more sets of 5th-great-grandparents, this time, on my father’s side of
Another 5th Great-Grandparents Happy Dance! Read More »
Back in May, I did a blog post describing my approach to how I document place names in my family tree. I shared that I follow the conventions used by FamilySearch – primarily, to follow the format of (town/city) + (county) + (state) + (country). You can find that post here. I have been doing
Exploring FamilySearch’s Improve Place Names Tool Read More »
A piece of advice I like to share with those researching their families is to go after all the vital records you can! Online indexes can be helpful – but getting the actual record is important for many reasons. Last week, my geneafriend, Renate Yarborough-Sanders, and I held the first session of a summer series
Get Those Vital Records! Read More »
This morning, while watching Ron Tanner’s recording of his live Facebook session Thursday, January 23rd, one of the first things he talked about was a new feature added to the FamilySearch Family Tree app. You can now see a view of all of the contributions you have personally made to FamilySearch Family Tree – and
FamilySearch Adds “My Contributions” Feature to Mobile App Read More »
Between 2013-2015, one of the side projects I started was to create a master index of names that appeared in Loose Estate Files of North Carolina. The North Carolina Genealogical Society partnered with FamilySearch to help index the names that appeared in the files so that they could then become searchable on the FamilySearch website. Well,
An Indexing Project Comes to Fruition Read More »