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What is Ancestry Good For? – Part 1

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|Date: Sun, Sep 23, 2012
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What is Ancestry Good For? – Part 1

Over the last several years I've used Ancestry.com to look up many of my relatives. In fact, it was the f ...

Over the last several years I've used Ancestry.com to look up many of my relatives. In fact, it was the first place I went to on my first night of looking. If I recall correctly, I either saw a banner ...

Sun, Sep 23, 2012
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Another Brickwall Broken

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|Date: Sat, Aug 04, 2012
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Another Brickwall Broken

On my dad's side, a great-grandmother had a brother who left home and eventually ended up in Chicago some ...

On my dad's side, a great-grandmother had a brother who left home and eventually ended up in Chicago sometime before 1920. Years turned into decades and eventually a lifetime later. He was never heard ...

Sat, Aug 04, 2012
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A Random Act of Kindness

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|Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012
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A Random Act of Kindness

A couple years ago, I puzzled over a photo that my grandfather had kept. It had a cardboard backing on it ...

A couple years ago, I puzzled over a photo that my grandfather had kept. It had a cardboard backing on it and he managed to scratch very light X's on his mother, father, and sister. He was a small boy ...

Sun, Feb 12, 2012
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Dangers of Researching

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|Date: Fri, May 27, 2011
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Dangers of Researching

Not too long ago, I got up about 4am and decided it would be a good idea to head out the door, grab some ...

Not too long ago, I got up about 4am and decided it would be a good idea to head out the door, grab some breakfast and hit the road early. I had a lot to do and a short amount of time to get it done i ...

Fri, May 27, 2011
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Reality and Research

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|Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2011
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Reality and Research

Recently, I've come to a unique perspective that many genealogists find as their spur forward into doing ...

Recently, I've come to a unique perspective that many genealogists find as their spur forward into doing the research. In fact, you can call it the driving force behind modern day genealogical researc ...

Mon, Apr 11, 2011
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Misspelling and the Lazy Genealogist

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|Date: Sun, Oct 03, 2010
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Misspelling and the Lazy Genealogist

I have a fellow in my tree that I am related to. He is an uncle to me. His son had a peculiar name, Icell ...

I have a fellow in my tree that I am related to. He is an uncle to me. His son had a peculiar name, Icell. Because of this unique name, it is rather easy to track him through the census and to gather ...

Sun, Oct 03, 2010
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Genealogical Plagiarism

Posted by Kevin Ralston
|Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2010
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Genealogical Plagiarism

There is a very real difference between the degree of genealogical research that a person does. It is eit ...

There is a very real difference between the degree of genealogical research that a person does. It is either unique or it is copied. The question is: which do you do? When I first started doing this, ...

Thu, Sep 16, 2010
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