Earlier this week, I was adding up the number of ancestors and collateral relatives that I had as Illinois residents. To that I add those of my children. No wonder why I feel comfortable and knowledgeable about Illinois research! For full details and registration on this December 1st webinar, please visit Family Tree University.
I love California and especially the greater Bay Area. I lived in Mountain View for a year when my ex-husband was stationed at Moffett Naval Air Station and my oldest son was born in Mountain View. I haven’t been back there for a few years, but this weekend, Saturday, October 22nd, I will be there. […]
Bonus payment applications, 4 page questionnaires, membership applications, family assistance details, descendant membership applications, old soldier home applications, and more yield great details on military personnel from the 19th and 20th centuries. To learn more about these records found all across the U.S., join me tomorrow at the Minnesota Historical Society for a class that […]
The timeline of places where one of my great great grandfathers resided has always fascinated me. Today I was searching online using some of my more unusual ancestral surnames. I repeat this every few months in order to see what new items appear online. The result was that I added a street name for William […]
Learning more about your family members who served in the U.S. military is helped by a wide variety of records. Some are created after the person is no longer serving and some involve survivors of those who died in the war effort. In October, I am teaching a class on this topic: More than Pensions: […]
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 […]