Have you ever told a story so many times that you know your audience is bored of it? I’m the first to raise my own hand – I’m guilty LOL. Every year on her birthday, I tell my daughter her birth story and I bet she’s totally over it by now, but I want her […]
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As for many across the country, this past weekend has been one filled with enjoyable moments with family! And I imagine we have all learned at least one family history story that we did not know about. I know I did. On Thanksgiving Day, I shared a short video on TikTok and Instagram highlighting 3 different
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I am 3 days into my daily video tips for preserving your family history and it’s been so much fun so far! Given that it is Preservation Week, this is the perfect opportunity to spread awareness for various things we can do when it comes to preserving our family history materials. It excites me to
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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
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Five years ago, in February 2015, I started Thomas MacEntee’s Genealogy Do-Over and it very much helped me transform my processes for how I record my genealogy files. I made many updates to my processes, and one of those, in particular, has been to move towards using standardized place names. This is interesting to me,
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I took a plunge this weekend for something I have had under contemplation for a while now. I created a Facebook group to establish a community of individuals interested in family history and/or general memory keeping activities! Over the past 15 years, I have been sharing my experiences via this blog and my miscellaneous family
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Off and on for the past 5 years, I have been making yearly 12×24 calendars for members of my family. I started back in 2014 and while I try to get it done each year, I have missed a few in this time frame primarily because I just have not always gotten myself organized enough
Genealogy Gifts for Family: Yearly Calendars Read More »
As Amy Johnson Crow begins her 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series this year, I finally decided to take the plunge and participate! The goal of the series is to do something with the genealogy research that I, and so many others, obsess about 🙂 ; to make it more interactive and dynamic than just
Our Visual Address History Read More »
I found out that today is National Haiku Poetry Day – yes!!! I love haiku. Along with an iambic pentameter, I had so much fun writing them in middle school! So, for National Haiku Poetry Day 2017, I present you with my genealogy haiku. Share yours!
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As genealogists and family historians, many of us are interested in the use of DNA to help us in our research quests and have had our DNA tested by one or more of the major testing companies. Some of us have also been interested in what our DNA can inform us about our health. You
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