Elyse's Genealogy Blog

So tonight I went to my boyfriend’s cousin’s 30th birthday party. It was a lot of fun. I really do enjoy being around such wonderful people and all the little kids. Then I realized that I don’t have any of the old traditions that my grandparents and great grandparents used to do. I don’t know [...]

So…a little update on my family newsletter: Well it is definitely going interestingly…okay I’ll admit it. It isn’t going well. I decided that I would create 2 slightly different versions for the 2 branches of my family tree that do not really communicate together (One version is for my maternal grandfather’s side of the family [...]

Hi everyone,So after some long thinking over many weeks, I’ve decided to finally face my fear and attempt to create a family newsletter that can be mailed out for all my family to see.I’ve kinda tried to do something similiar before except I had it all on the internet. Needless to say, it did not [...]

Hey everyone,So today I was doing some school supply shopping and I came up with a great realization. I know there are so many people out there who need to get their genealogy organized extremely badly. Well, with school supplies like binders, dividers, file folders, highlighters, etc. all on sale – it is definitely time [...]

So I started asking some of my genealogy friends about the number one tip they would give to a beginning genealogist. I have gathered them here so that you can look them over and hopefully not make the same rookie mistakes that a lot of us fellow genealogists have done and if you are a [...]

Hi everyone,Welcome to my very first blogging post! For those of you who don’t know me already from Youtube (Visit my videos – http://youtube.com/elyse90505), I am a genealogist from California who wants to share my genealogy with the world while also helping you discover your roots!I’ve been researching my genealogy for about 5 or 6 [...]