ancestors

  • Ideas to Help Search Names

    Jun 6

    So you have hit the 'brick wall' in your family research. Here are a few suggestions to possibility spark some new and untried methods. First examine the family surname. If it is a rather common name, focus on family individuals who you found to have more unusual given names. Even if such a person is a 3rd great granduncle and not direct lineage, i...

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  • Photos—Historical Society of Palm Beach

    Jun 4

    Any ancestors from the southeast portion of Florida? The Historical Society of Palm Beach (the county is Palm Beach - with cities such as Lake Worth, West Palm Beach, Delray, etc.) has placed a large collection of some vintage images of the county of Palm Beach over the decades. Your ancestors may not have lived there, but a good possibility they m...

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  • Civil War Records–Images from Tennessee

    May 19

    For those researchers who can not travel to Tennessee to do family history on any ancestors from that state, there is now online a wonderful collection of Civil War artifacts gathered from most of the state's counties by the Tennessee State Library and Archives. You will view first a map with all the counties outlined. Some 34 counties are comple...

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  • Transcribing Documents

    May 5

    You are so happy you located from a distant cousin a journal written by your great grandfather. You have taken time to carefully read every word, sometimes guessing what a certain word might be due to the handwriting used in 1890. The question is "Now what?" The next step to be completed by all family history researchers is to completely and ac...

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  • Ancestrial Handwriting – Spencerian Script

    Apr 27

    With handwriting nearly a lost art and less being used and taught in schools due to the use of texting and computers, it is fascinating to look back at the type of handwriting style script your ancestors were taught and used in the 1800s and in the first half of the 20th century. It is called Spencerian Script. This style of handwriting was es...

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  • California Digital Newspapers

    Apr 17

    The state of California dates back to the 1840s with the first gold rush and even earlier under Spanish rule. Many people over the decades have lived and worked in this very physically large state. So with the opportunity to search a massive collection of the California newspapers is a great chance to learn additional information about any relative...

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  • Ideas for Less than a Half-Hour

    Apr 13

      Need some ideas of how to further your family history research yet you can only share less than 30 minutes every few days or even once a week. The following are some ideas of simple and quick mini-project you can do in a very short period of time. If you do one a week there will be major advancement in your research.   One grea...

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  • Dublin, Ireland – Digital Collections

    Apr 3

    The University of Dublin in Ireland with the Trinity College Library has made available in digital format a good portion of their collections making them accessible on the Internet. The collections include paintings, maps, photos, documents, postcards, books, public broadsides (posters) and manuscripts all relating to Dublin, Ireland and with other...

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  • Creative Ways to Display Your Ancestors

    Mar 24

    Doing the research to gather information on one's ancestors can be difficult and does take time. However, when you are ready to display some of your findings, you can become very creative. Of course always have the tree on paper in its basic outline form. Having it on a software program for genealogy with you computers is also a great idea. Y...

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  • Create a Family History Website

    Mar 12

    You have spent a good deal of time gathering photos and vital records on your family tree. The compiled information is now quite extensive. It is saved on a computer, an external hard drive and copies shared with other family members, so now what? First, you never finish, there is always several relatives you never located much information on a...

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