ancestors
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Short-Cuts on the Keyboard
Feb 27
It is always great to learn quick and easy methods for doing an activity. One that family history researchers and writers could use is how to preform short-cuts on their computer using the keyboard. It can be helpful for document or especially viewing and researching on a web site. Make a copy of those special short-cuts you might use the most ...
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Finding Those Female Ancestors
Feb 25
One of the toughest aspects in doing your family tree just might be locating information on a grandmother, great aunt, great grandmother - the female line. Because of those who marry, taking a new surname, the maiden name can get 'lost'. Here are a few ideas of how to locate some information on the ladies. Look over carefully birth, ma...
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So Cute & So True. Lighthearted Genealogy Sayings.
Feb 17
Sometimes placing a little humor about a preoccupation a person has, makes it easier for others to understand that obsession. So the following are just a few lighthearted sayings and observations about all of us who love working on our family tree. A genealogist’s filing system usually incorporates the floor. Genealogists don’t get Alzhei...
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Cyndi’s Facebook
Feb 13
Social media is now the quickest method to gather information, share data and ask a question. Along with the online giant of social media being Facebook, one of the renown and long time Internet providers of links to great genealogical resources is Cyndi's List. That site alone has 327,000 links to every possible family history resource available...
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British Newspapers from 1700 to 1999
Feb 11
Newspapers are really the life blood of a community, town or city -- covering about events, places and people in that town. This is why finding newspapers from a certain area where our ancestors lived and then seeing if there was ever an article about that person or a family member can provide such additional information for you research. If you...
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You Are There – Roots Tech Conference
Feb 5
RootsTech is the largest genealogy conference/seminar/expo in North America. It begins on Thursday, February 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah and runs through February 8th. The fourth-year conference (its started in 2011) already has more than 10,000 people signed up to attend. There will be many instructional sessions to help the newbie to the experienc...
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Go From Image to Text
Feb 3
Have a jpg or pdf image of an old genealogical record (Bible, journal, newspaper, court document, property records, etc) that is hard to read? Assuming the text is not handwritten (which is beyond the capability of computer software), it should be possible to convert the image to computer-readable text using what is known as Optical Character Reco...
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Google Drive
Jan 27
It is amazing what can be done with technology and electronics today. It has proven to be such a big boost for those researching about their families. Just the other day, a young fellow had a school project to do his family tree. Using several databases on the Internet as well as information done on a web site by one of his relatives, he was able ...
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Scanned Documents. Jewish Federation of North America.
Jan 23
The Jewish Federation of North America have a database of searchable names, with over half a millions names in the index. They come a variety of sources and cover many time periods. There are the Jewish Refugees Arriving in Australia via Melbourne, 1946-1954, Refugees in Zbaszyn, Poland in 1938-1939, Transmigration Records, Palestine Remittance...
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Your Birth # Number
Jan 21
Just like there are horoscopes to help figure out a person's behavior and possible future actions, there is another method - Your Birth Number. Here it is a simple matter of taking your birth month, day and year; convert them to numbers and then keep adding them together until you have one single number. This is known as numerology. Then there...