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Favorite Reads of the Week: 1 October 2016 – Cemetery freestyling, FamilySearch tips, Twile

Families and Children 31 EASY Ways to Engage Children in Family History Cemetery Freestyling With Kids Generation Gap: Building Bridges with Stories by Meghan Vigeant at Stories to Tell Creating and Sharing Ask The Family Curator: Consultations Now Available by Denise Levenick at The Family Curator “Tell me a story, Daddy!” by PeterLLC at By Common Consent 5 Tips for Shooting Family Artifacts with SHOTBOX by Denis Levenick at The Family Curator Research Tips Genealogy Journals and Newsletters The Power […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer October 1, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret – October Book Club Selection

What would you do if out of the blue you discovered that your mother, a self proclaimed “only child,” had a sister? If you were Steve Luxenberg and an investigative reporter, you would start researching your family in earnest. Steve wrote Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret to tell the story of his quest that uncovered the truth of Annie’s existence and her life in a mental institution. What would cause his mother to […]

By Diana Elder September 30, 2016 Book Club, Creating and Sharing Family History

Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks, Part 3

This is part 3 of a 3 part series: Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks. Part 1: Enumeration District Descriptions Part 2: Civil Districts and Other County Divisions Part 3: Maps of Enumeration Districts Maps of Enumeration Districts In this post, we will learn how the NARA Enumeration District Maps can help pinpoint the exact boundaries of county divisions with each state. Back to our example of James […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer September 28, 2016 Records, Research Tips

Becoming an Accredited Genealogist: Levels 2 & 3 Study Group – Session 3, The Three-Hour Research Project

How would you like to produce a research project in three hours complete with a research log, report, documents, family group sheet, and pedigree chart? That is exactly what each Accreditation candidate is asked to do for the final stage of testing. To be honest, this part of the process scared me the most so I was very glad to cover it in depth in my study group. I’ve now completed two practice projects and […]

By Diana Elder September 27, 2016 Accreditation, Research Tips

Favorite Reads of the Week: 24 September 2016 – Making history relevant, good hair, name change

Creating and Sharing Family History Should We Try to Make History “Relevant”? by Lauren S. Brown at Middle Web Sharing Family History Through Food: Apple Crisp Recipe by Janet Havorka at Zap the Grandma Gap Childless Matters by Janice Jacobs at The APH Blog “I Lost My Photos on My Phone!!” Here’s What You Need to Do by Lisa Louise Cooke at Genealogy Gems What’s in Your Closet? by Cathy Gilmore at the Kindex Blog Family history is circular by Carolyn […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer September 24, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Productivity Counts: Making the Best Use of Your Family History Time

Do you wish you had more time to devote to your genealogical research or family history projects? Do you ever sit down to your computer and after an hour wonder what you’ve accomplished? I’ve found that most people feel time crunched and struggle with feeling productive in their family history efforts. When I set the goal to become an accredited genealogist I wondered how I could possibly get everything done. This year I’ve worked hard to develop several […]

By Diana Elder September 23, 2016 Accreditation, Organizing, Research Tips

Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks, Part 2

This is part 2 of a 3 part series: Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks. Part 1: Enumeration District Descriptions Part 2: Civil Districts and Other County Divisions Part 3: Maps of Enumeration Districts Civil Districts and Other County Divisions In this post, we will learn about the county division field on the census and how it can help us map our ancestors’ census location. In part 1 of this […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer September 21, 2016 Records, Research Tips

Back To School: Those Valuable Homestead Records

Do you have anyone in your family who took advantage of the Homestead Law of 1862? It is estimated that 2 million individuals applied for up to 320 acres of free land and your ancestor might be among them. What kind of records did the Homestead Law generate? How can you find out if your ancestors filed claims? What does a case file look like? September is “back to school month,” so get ready to learn the […]

By Diana Elder September 19, 2016 Records, Research Tips

Favorite Reads of the Week: 17 September 2016 – Reasons to attend RootsTech, handwritten letters, oral history

News Popular RootsTech Event Open for Registration at the FamilySearch Blog Third Annual 2017 RootsTech Innovator Showdown Boasts $100,000 in Prizes at the FamilySearch Blog 7 Reasons to Attend RootsTech 2017 by Tyler S. Stahle at the FamilySearch Blog FGS Next Project – #FGS2016 at The Ancestry Insider Find A Grave Community Weekend on October 7-9 by Jessica Murray at the Ancestry.com Blog Family History Easy Button: Create New Sources in Family Tree from MyHeritage by Logan Steele at the […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer September 17, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks, Part 1

Where Did He Live? When researching in U.S. Census records, have you ever wanted to locate your ancestor on the map but the census place was unclear? This happened to me when I found my relative, James F. Maness, on the 1900 census. I checked the header info on the census form, but the ‘township or other division of county’ was listed as “4 district” and the field for ‘name of incorporated city, town, or village, within […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer September 15, 2016 Records, Research Tips

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Favorite Reads of the Week: 1 October 2016 – Cemetery freestyling, FamilySearch tips, Twile

Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret – October Book Club Selection

Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks, Part 3

Becoming an Accredited Genealogist: Levels 2 & 3 Study Group – Session 3, The Three-Hour Research Project

Favorite Reads of the Week: 24 September 2016 – Making history relevant, good hair, name change

Productivity Counts: Making the Best Use of Your Family History Time

Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks, Part 2

Back To School: Those Valuable Homestead Records

Favorite Reads of the Week: 17 September 2016 – Reasons to attend RootsTech, handwritten letters, oral history

Where Did My Ancestor Live? How Enumeration District Maps Can Fill in the Blanks, Part 1

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