This scholarship opportunity for someone signing up for my course touches me in a special way that I bet no one from the Western New York Genealogical Society or the Genealogical Research of Pittsburgh directors will know. I have a distant connection to the WNYGS. The late June Partridge Zintz who was instrumental in the […]
I am excited to be returning to two of my favorite states this summer to teach. I might squeeze in a bit of research, but that won’t be my main aim. That main aim is to share knowledge with fellow family historians. 29 July-3 August, 2018 for shuffling near to Buffalo I am coordinating and […]
Fort Snelling National Cemetery is the resting place of my parents, parents-in-law, aunts, uncles, and other relatives and friends. This weekend 5000 volunteers placed American flags on each and every gravesite at the cemetery. I thank them for this enormous task. They all placed more than 200,000 flags. I know some genealogists who participated in […]
Thank you to my readers who joined me in yesterday’s webinar Developing Good Research Habits for the Board for Certification of Genealogists on Legacy Family Tree webinars. Several inquiries (and my answers) at the end of my presentation might be of interest to others. I hope I answered everyone who contacted me by email, this […]
As promised during the questions on tonight’s BCG webinar, here is the repost about a few guidebooks. Genealogy guidebooks are an important part of our genealogical education. The list below is a sampling of basic genealogy guidebooks that are important to beginning and for more advanced researchers. If you are only checking online resources and […]
I was going to compose a post to tell about an event for Thursday, May 17, but the St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society already has the info put together on its website. We did this a couple years ago and people stayed for three hours with questions. I was able to answer most questions but […]
Join my free webinar Developing Good Research Habits on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. EDT (7 CDT, 6 MDT, 5 PDT) and the middle of the morning or night in some other countries! This is a Board for Certification of Genealogists presentation and is hosted on Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Developing those good, […]
I love my Google News alerts that share news relate to records, repositories, and family history. In my various presentations on railroad records and family history, one repository I usually include in the discussion is in Ithaca, New York. Cornell University’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives has an amazing collection of records from […]
As I work on material for this year’s Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh’s week in the Buffalo, New York area, I decided to see what suggestions had been made in the evaluations for the past years of my course. The course I coordinate, Intermediate Genealogy: Tools for Digging Deeper, did receive some good suggestion which will be […]
This is an update from MyHeritage: “DNA Quest is our pro bono initiative to reunite adopted people with their biological family members. We are providing 15,000 MyHeritage DNA kits, worth more than one million dollars, for free, to eligible participants. DNA Quest has just been expanded globally so that now anyone from any country can […]