If you are on Facebook and other social media, you saw the great education and fun many genealogists had at the annual Federation of Genealogical Societies’ conference that was held last week in Springfield, Illinois. I attended the three evening events and three luncheons. It was a wonderful time and I heard many people saying […]
I apologize for not fulfilling my promise. It’s not my fault. I searched and searched on Thursday and Friday for the link I needed to give you. Nowhere. Nada. I didn’t receive the email from Ancestry that would have given the link. It was also not on the Ancestry related FB pages then. Neither was […]
Even though I am at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference this week, I will have a special announcement to share on Thursday, September 1st. No, I won’t give any good hints, except to say it will involve something being FREE. See you back here on Thursday!
From now through the end of October I will be presenting classes and seminar in my home state of Minnesota, Illinois, on a cruise, in South Dakota, and in California. I hope to see many of my readers at these events. Let’s be sure to support our genealogical organizations as they word hard to provide […]
I promised a couple groups of genealogists that I would repost a list of books. 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 also for more advanced researchers. If you are only checking online resources and yet wondering […]
FGS is wowing everyone with this announcement! FEDERATION OF GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES ANNOUNCES UPCOMING NATIONAL CONFERENCES FOR 2019 AND 2020 August 16, 2016 – Austin, TX. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announces the FGS 2019 National Conference will be held August 21-24 in Washington, D.C., and the FGS 2020 National Conference will be held September […]
UPDATE 18 August: The car show has been cancelled. The pressure to not do other things like this got to the cemetery board. It makes me sad. I love watching house buying shows on cable TV. I laugh every time the realtor or buyer mentions the negative feature of a house being across the street […]
The title above is for one of my presentations at the 2016 Federation of Genealogical Society’s annual national conference that begins later this month. It is being held August 31 through September 3 in Springfield, Illinois. Everyone with a interested in family history is welcome. For full details and registration: https://www.fgsconference.org/ The topic of river […]
Imagine knowing details about the town in which your family lived back about 1200 a.d. An archeologist from Saint Louis University , history professor Thomas J. Finan, is providing us those details. Along with his students, he has spent time for 13 summers excavating the site of “Purt Na Carce (“Port Nah Carr-rick”). It is […]