Elyse's Genealogy Blog

Most of you know that I have some big genea-dreams.  I have accomplished another one of my genea-dreams: My blog now has it’s own domain and is hosted.  So now you can find my blog right here – www.elysesgenealogyblog.com – how cool is that! This is something that I’ve been thinking about for a long [...]

After reading What Does It Take To Be A Successful Genealogist on the Genoom Blog, I started thinking about what I considered to be the traits that are needed to be a successful genealogists.  I decided that patience was a much needed trait to be mentioned (read my comment at the bottom of the post [...]

This week’s featured county webpage from USGenWeb is Cattaraugus County, New York.  I often use this webpage when researching my Downer line.  It is full of useful details, hints, and helpful resources.  The team that works on this webpage (and yes, it truly is a team) has done an incredibly job. To the left is [...]

Are you excited?  The Winter 2010 GeneaBloggers Games are back!  I am so happy to compete and get some real genealogy work done.  These games are a lot of fun, brings the GeneaBlogger community closer, and makes all of us a bit more efficient for the month of February. I will be competing in all [...]

As part of a new series, every week I will be featuring a county website from the USGenWeb Project.  I feel that it is important to spread the word about this helpful and free resource (free is my favorite price).  I will not feature every county, but instead feature the counties that I find to [...]

When I started this blog in July of 2008, I had no idea where it would take me.  My main goal was to share my family history knowledge and hope that someone would read it.  I never expected to be surrounded by so many wonderful people, learn so much, and have so much fun.  I [...]

After reading George Geder’s blog post, Legacy 7.4; Same Sex Marriage Workarounds on his blog, Geder Genealogy, I became curious as to whether or not my program of choice, RootsMagic 4 would be able to show same sex marriages. So I checked.  To be honest it took me a while to make it work.  But [...]

This is my mystery woman.  The name on the photo says “J.A Rogers” on the bottom left side and “Bedford, Ind.” on the bottom right side.  However, in my database I don’t have any Rogers’ living in Indiana in m database. On the back of the picture, my grandma Nancy Rogers wrote “My beautiful Grandmother [...]

Note: This article is not very grammatically correct.  There are a lot of run-on sentences and such.  But the reason is because this article is full of emotion and I don’t believe that the message I am trying to send will come across if I write the way my English professor would like me to. [...]

Note: This is a press release that I received by email from MyHeritage.  The company is expanding, having acquired multiple international genealogy websites.  Plus, the company is improving it’s family tree viewer program and more projects are in the works.  Read below for more information. MyHeritage.com Acquires Major Family Network OSN (Verwandt.de) to Accelerate Building the [...]