It’s easy to join MGS at https://mngs.org/. then you can be a part of the Ask MGS! You must be a member in order to join this session. Membership also provides the quarterly journal, meeting discounts, and a whole lotta webinars that are for members only.
Normally, the Library Edition of Ancestry is available only when you are at a subscribing library. Due to the current Covid-19 that has shut down our libraries, Ancestry and ProQuest have made it available in our homes through cooperating libraries. What a generous thing they have done for family historians. Today they announced it will […]
It’s been a few weeks of planning, meetings, reworking of some sessions, and now it can be announced that GRIP is going virtual in 2020. To keep students, instructors, coordinators and the directors, Debbie and Elissa safe, we are going to teach and attend online. More info will be forthcoming. For the time being, check […]
MyHeritage has a yearbook collection that is FREE, through May 23, 2020! From Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage: “Our yearbook collection consists of 290 million names in 36 million pages, from yearbooks across the U.S. from 1890 until 1979. Take this opportunity to reminisce about your own high school years or search for your loved ones […]
April 25th is National DNA Day in the U.S. and the sale prices on DNA testing are already beginning. Check AncestryDNA.com, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, 23andMe, and LivingDNA. In a future post, I will list some helpful books and online guidance. To learn more about the origins of this commemoration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Day.
A couple weeks ago, Cyndi Ingle asked me to do an educational guest post on The Genealogy Squad (TGS) Cyndi is one of the administrators of TGS and also is the Cyndi of CyndisList.com. We talked about several ideas and this morning 15 April) I posted my tips on Native American research. Now I have […]
During April 2020 you can view a free webinar each day from Legacy Family Tree Webinars. It’s a webinar chosen by Legacy and it is available beginning at midnight Eastern Time Zone. Their blog has the list of what is being offered each day. Be sure to download the handout for each webinar. If you […]
The Genealogy Guys just released the video file, “Using Stereographs and Vintage Postcards” at Genealogy Guys Learn. They also have a new written course, “Dowager Law: A Case Study”. The Genealogy Guys Learn subscription is on sale for $79 (reg. $99 per year.) You’ll find details, instructions, and the Coupon Code in The Genealogy Guys […]
Staying at home to be safe is not a problem with the consultations I do with clients and prospective clients. I have done them by Zoom, Google Hangout, and by phone over the last few weeks. I do have openings on my calendar starting next week for more. I can assist you with using any […]
This is not a list of all the websites that offer digitized books and periodicals for us, but is a list that will get you started from the comfort of your own home. This list of free websites is abstracted from my oft-requested presentation Your Anytime Library: Success in the Virtual Stacks. We can do […]