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Ways to Celebrate National Family History Month
Oct 2
In the United States, National Family History Month is celebrated in October. In 2001, Congress passed a resolution that was introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican – Utah). The resolution was to officially create Family History Month. Here are some ideas for celebrating Family History Month: Visit the Library Your local library may ...
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Family Gifts
Oct 1
The first of October and it is a great time to come up with some interesting family photo collections you can share with family members as a very special holiday gift. Making something as simple as a very personalized calendar featuring vintage photos of family members past and present for when their birthday or wedding anniversary falls on a date...
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Music of Your Ancestral Region
Sep 29
If you've done a great deal of research or using DNA testing and know fairly sure your family's ancestral heritage – Eastern European, North African, German, Southeast Asia, etc., you just might like to have a collection of music characteristic of those ancestral heritage. Using Ancestry.com you can place the regions your ancestors originated...
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Make Digital those Photos
Sep 27
You have put off that task long enough. Now is the time to make digital your collection of photos. Recruit some help from a family member or friend and make it a party. One of the easiest methods is using a portable scanner especially if you have boxes of photos. I had six very large plastic boxes from my mother-in-law who had passed away and I ...
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African-Americans Serving in Civil War
Sep 25
The USCT was made up of better than 178,000 freed African-Americans who were willing served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. Of that figure, during the war, about 2,751 USCT soldiers lost their lives in combat. More than 68,000 more died during military service from disease and other causes. They were not in the...
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Reasons to Attend a RootsTech Conference
Sep 25
RootsTech is a 4-day annual family history and technology conference. It takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Salt Palace Convention Center. There are many good reasons to attend a RootsTech Conference. RootsTech is Huge RootsTech is the largest genealogical conference in the world. RootsTech is a place to build connections with other ge...
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One Hundred Years – The Spanish Flu
Sep 23
From roughly January 1918 to December 1920, there was a deadly world-wide influenza pandemic. Approximately 500 million around the globe were affected and some 50 to 100 million died as a result of this flu. What appears strange it was mostly the youth, those healthy young adults (ages 20s to 30s) who were affected and died from the 1918 Spanish Fl...
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Linkpendium to Search
Sep 21
This collection known as 'Linkpedium' is a resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties. Most of the directory shows free sources from libraries, other government agencies, genealogical and historical societies, and individuals. There are also items found...
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MyHeritage Changes Policy on DNA Uploads
Sep 20
MyHeritage announced that they will be changing their policy regarding DNA uploads. This change will effect some of what was previously offered for free. Full details will be released later. MyHeritage wrote in a blog post: “As of December 1, 2018, our policy regarding DNA uploads will change: DNA Matching will remain free for uploaded DNA dat...
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Criminals Sent to Australia
Sep 19
There were about 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia in total during the 19th century – to empty out the overcrowded English jails. Many people today can claim their ancestors of those English and Irish convicts. It is an interesting story whether you had such an ancestor or not. For what reasons would a convict be sent to the wilds o...
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Best Practices to Protect Privacy of Consumer Genetic Data
Sep 18
The Future of Privacy Forum and leading genetic testing companies announced Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services. The genetic testing companies included: Ancestry, 23andMe, Helix, MyHeritage, Habit, African Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA, and Living DNA. The Best Practices provide a policy framework for the collection, protecti...
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Revolutionary Colored Troops
Sep 17
Many people don't realize the there were African-Americans or Colored Troops serving since the American Revolutionary War. Free blacks in the North and South fought on both sides of the Revolution; slaves were recruited to weaken those masters who supported the opposing cause. Most blacks fought on the patriot side; with about 9000 black Patriot so...
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Constitution Day – Sept 17th
Sep 15
This is an important day for all Americans. The basis of whole history and lifestyle is that the United States is governed by a written constitution. It was on September 17, 1787, that 39 of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, meeting at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania signed the newly drafted U.S. Constitution. This ...
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Why is it Important to Preserve Historical Records?
Sep 13
Today, many important genealogy records have been digitally archived and made available online. Not all of them have, though! There are many reasons why it is important to preserve historical records. In Case of Fire The Great Chicago Fire burned from October 8, 1871, through October 10, 1871. Most of Chicago's voting records were destroyed i...
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Great Tidbits about your Family’s Ancestors
Sep 11
You wonder sometimes 'why you spend time researching your ancestors'. Besides learning who, when and where there can be so much more to learn about them and their lives. It then helps you see where you came from and how you got to where you are now. Some of the types of tidbits or small treasures of information you might learn about any ancestor i...
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