The second Ancestry Academy course I taught is now live and ready for viewing. It is accompanied by an extensive handout. While viewing the Academy courses, you can start and stop at any time. The come back and it will be right where you left off. This new one is The Lure of the Train […]
A press release from one of my favorite websites and a library extraordinaire tell that “through April 13, American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society is offering FREE access to one billion online records on AmericanAncestors.org. Free accounts ordinarily allow Guest Users only a sampling of the vast offerings that NEHGS provides family historians […]
It might be one of these projects that encourages us to celebrate: An index of state level birth and death records That newspaper card index in the local history room The newspaper clippings file at the county historical society Indexes and transcriptions of old probate records, naturalizations, county commissioner minutes List of burials in many […]
UPDATE: The registration limit has been reached. Watch the MGS website for more great webinars. If you join MGS, you will be able to view all past webinars. One more reason why genealogical society membership is important. Join me on Wednesday, April 6, for a FREE webinar sponsored by the Minnesota Genealogical Society. My […]
Have you signed up yet? The Ohio Genealogical Society Conferences are always great learning and networking events. The 2016 edition takes place at the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio. That’s 25 miles north of Cincinnati. The dates are April 28-30 and I hope to see you there. Pre-conference activities on Wednesday, April 27 include […]
What am I doing this week? For one, you can stay at home wearing your slippers and listen to me. For the second one, you do have to get fully dressed, including shoes! Wednesday, March 30 Family Tree University webinar, “Census Problems and Solutions for Genealogy” Time: 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central/5 p.m. Mountain/4 p.m. […]
If you aren’t among the many genealogists who are on Facebook, you have missed a fun project going around. My California friend, J. Paul Hawthorne, created a template in Excel on which you add the birth state or country for you and your first four ancestral generations. I added county names to mine and in […]
In 2016 we are fortunate to have a plethora of books and periodicals indexed online. Even with all of that and with the libraries in our home areas, there are undoubtedly books, microfilms, and periodicals to which you don’t have direct access. Think about all those genealogy books, county histories, family histories and other items […]
What better day than St. Patrick’s Day to announce that registration is open for the Celtic Connections Conference, to be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Park Place in St. Louis Park, Minnesota from August 5-6, 2016. This event is for researchers at all levels interested in discovering their Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish […]
The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announced today that presentation proposals are now being received for its 2017 Conference, “Building Bridges to the Past,” to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August 30 – September 2, 2017. The conference will be held in cooperation with the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society as local host. The deadline for […]