Ancestry

My Genealogical Threes

1 August 2009 Family Stories

I’m playing along with Randy Seaver‘s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.   This week’s assignment is to: Tell us your three responses to the questions: Three genealogical libraries I frequent Three places I’ve visited on genealogy trips Three genealogy societies I belong to (or want to) Three websites that help my research Three ancestral graves that I’ve [...]

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Favorite Genealogy Websites

24 July 2009 Technology

These are my top ten favorite websites for genealogy research (I have not included blogs – they will be the subject of another post).   Most are big sites, whether commercial, government, or volunteer-supported, but a few are personal sites that have been particularly helpful in my own research. Ancestry.  The census records alone make the [...]

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An Almost-Missed Finding

11 November 2008 Research

I received an email from Ancestry today with “Possible record matches” in the subject line.   Those of you who use Ancestry know that they give you hints, with little green leaves indicating some sort of match in their records, whether it be in another tree, a historical record, etc.  This email contained three such hints.  [...]

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