Jun 5
It is great to create a story of an ancestor or of a specific family branch. Using the 'Spark.Abode.com' online software, you can do it easily. Use family photos to make a short video on any person, event or subject can be quite creative and fun. The 'Spark.Abode' site can assist you all the way, helping to add special graphics, creating a web sit...
Jun 4
What do you do when you want to find information online? The majority of people “just Google it”. Typically, Google will come up with the answers that the person was seeking. What if Google didn't find your ancestors? There are plenty of other search engines to try. Duck Duck Go Duck Duck Go is “the search engine that doesn't track you”...
Jun 3
There are a variety of apps to choose from that enable you to post your family photos online. Ultimately, you have to pick the one that is best for your needs. Clixta is a family photo sharing app that is working with Copyright Hub. Clixta is a photo sharing network that is completely focused on the past. It provides a simple and fun way to shar...
Jun 3
You might not want to find an ancestor in these sets of records, but if a relative lived in Dublin in the early 20th century and had a few 'social' run in with the law, you will find this source invaluable. There were many social conflicts in Dublin during those years and many arrests made by the police. The records on this Dublin police database...
Jun 2
MyHeritage announced the launch of their revolutionary technology that will help individuals locate information about their ancestors that is found in books. It is called Book Matching. It automatically looks at the individuals that are in family trees on MyHeritage and looks for them in MyHeritage's vast collection of digitized historical books. ...
Jun 1
Many people have asked the Family History Library if they are going to hold their Global Family Reunion block party again. It was a very popular event. FamilySearch has announced that the Family History Library will be holding a block party in the Summer of 2016. In 2015, thousands of people gathered in Salt Lake City, Utah, to participate in a ...
Jun 1
It can be so helpful to locate a birth record on an ancestor. There would be the full name, date of birth, the place of birth and the parents' names. If you go back many decades there was no governmental (county-state) requirements for recording births. If you are having trouble locating a birth record, here are a few other ideas for coming up with...
May 31
Before county-state records were officially recorded for births-marriages and deaths, these records were kept in the churches. However, if a person was born at home, not have a baptismal, married by a circuit rider, or buried in a family graveyard, there might not be any church records. Yet, most every family households (even non-religious ones) ha...
May 29
With nearly everything done as digital, you might wonder if there will be no need to keep paper copies of vital records, letters, documents, etc. The answer clearly is YES. Go back a hundred years, the U. S. Federal Census records beginning with the 20th century had available a new technology - that of microfilming. Wonderful idea to microfilm tho...
May 28
In general, genealogists are excellent fact-checkers. Part of genealogy research requires the ability to discern between an original source and a copy. The original source is always the most credible. Sadly, it appears that some genealogists do not understand what plagiarism means. Or, they might be aware that they are plagiarising something, a...
May 27
In any type of research and especially when working on your family history, you are very dependent on the use of search engines on the Internet to attempt to locate a document, database, photos, a record, a journal, letters, or book that could provide that little key bit of information missing about your ancestors. Google is always number one when...
May 27
Color Genomics has a mission to democratize access to high-quality genetic information. They provide high-quality, physician-ordered, genetic tests at a low cost. Their tests include support for physicians as well as genetic counseling as part of every purchase. Color Genomics has created a new genetics test that can identify the risk of common ...
May 26
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's (CHOP) Center for Autism Research is joining the launch of the United States' largest autism research study. The study is called SPARK and it combines a web-based registry with DNA analysis to accelerate autism research and to speed discovery of potential autism treatments and supports. There is much to...
May 25
It seems surprising that it took until 2016 for the United States to select its official national mammal. The bison is an excellent choice not only for symbolic reasons, but also for historical ones. It took a piece of legislation, and a lot of public interest, to make the bison the official mammal of the United States. It has been a long time...
May 25
It may not have occurred to you but your own local public library may have many of the subscription fee-based databases available free to you. Such resources as Ancestry.com, Fold3 (military records and related info), World Vital Records, Newspaper Archives, HeritageQuest, Newspaper.com or My Heritage sites can be accessed using computers at the li...