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Common Wrongdoings to Avoid
Sep 17
Anyone can overlook certain items in their family history research which could be classified as 'mistakes'. If you are aware of such particulars it is easier to avoid them or correct them. A common one that needs to be avoided is mistakes relating to an ancestor's given names or surname. Whoever wrote down the information for a document is not inf...
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National Parks’ Archive of Photos
Sep 9
Combination of the National Parks Service and Clemson University have worked to collect and scan a collection of photos relating to the national parks in the United States. They put together over 220,000 images plus scanned thousands of documents relating to the parks. The homepage of the online site shows you the categories for the many images in...
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Folk Art Family Records – Frakturs
Aug 29
The group known as 'Pennsylvania Dutch' - actually not Dutch at all but rather German-speaking inhabitants who settled in Pennsylvania and later neighboring Maryland, descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants from the Rhineland area of Germany. The term 'Dutch' comes from Deutsch which means German. They were well-known for produc...
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Finding Errors in Records??
Jun 7
Sometimes it is difficult to locate an ancestor because there could be errors either you have made or that were made when a vital record (birth, marriage, death, deed, military, etc) was created. The spelling of given and surnames is one of the common areas of errors. Many names have quite a few various methods of being spelled and those ways have...
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Speech to Text. Useful to Genealogy and Family History Research!
Apr 27
How many times do you wish there was another method to transcribe to text a recording you had of a relative or be able to dictate some documents so they were in digital text form? Using the online software 'Speechlogger' you can now do that very easily. It works with Chrome Browsers. This is a speech recognition (which goes from spoken word to dig...
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Beginning Points
Apr 19
Starting your family history research can seem like a monumental task. You may have even attempted it a few years ago and then let it slide. Well, start fresh and know you can find out things about your relatives you never dreamed of. You do have to have patience. Begin by gathering what you had collected earlier. If you hadn't started, see if a...
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Steps in Gathering Those ‘Family Leaves’
Apr 5
No one ever stated that creating your family tree would be easy. It does take time and patience. To avoid any major mistakes, which is a big 'no-no' -- review over these various steps or procedures to help collect the right family branches and leaves to form the correct family tree. I always believe, never accept as 100% correct and copy anyone ...
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Your Blue or Gray Ancestors
Apr 1
As you go through gathering information for your family tree, somewhere along the way you may well come across ancestor or two who were either military soldiers or sailors during the American Civil War (1861-1865). If they supported the North - the Federal Union they were recognized by 'Blue' for their uniform. If they supported the Southern region...
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Genealogical Standard of Proof.
Mar 31
When doing your family history research you look for primary vital records. Those are the birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce papers and death certificates official filled out at the time of each event by a government agency. These are also known as primary sources, the best for getting accurate information of names, places and dates. K...
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Online Search Death Certificates / Records by States
Mar 29
Using the death index / records can be of great assistance in making sure your family history has as much of the details as possible. Death records are kept in with state that an individual died in. Even if they never lived in a certain state, if they died there, records are kept. However, such records started to be kept at different times in eac...