Are Genealogists Meant To Lack Answers?
Tweet I love meeting fellow genealogists. But when I meet fellow genealogists and they discover how young I am, something like “You are so lucky…
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Surname Saturday: Dugger
Tweet For my Surname Saturday posts, I will be going in the order of my ahnetafel number system. The person with the number two is…
Speaking Engagements in May 2010
Tweet May is going to be a crazy-awesome month for me. On May 2 at 2 p.m., I will be speaking at the Immigrant Genealogy…
Surname Saturday: Doerflinger
Tweet Following in the footsteps of Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings, I’ve decided to do Surname Saturday posts in the order of the Ahnentafel numbering system.…
Preparing For A Genealogy Research Trip
Tweet With the weather warming up, many family historians are planning their research trips to libraries, conferences, or their ancestral homeland. It is very exciting to…
Overcoming Brick Walls: Cluster Research
Tweet It can get very frustrating when you’ve collected lots of source documents on your ancestor but you still haven’t found what you wanted. You’ve…
Changes To “Who Do You Think You Are” Schedule
Tweet (Get ready to throw a big tantrum because this news is not going to make you happy) I just read on the Southern California…
Sentimental Sunday: A Goodbye Letter
Tweet For Sentimental Sunday, I have chosen to share a letter that my Mom wrote not long after her father died for her brother to…
Overcoming Brick Walls: Expanding Your Knowledge
Tweet An important step to breaking down a genealogy brick wall is to begin learning as much as you can about the time period and…
Overcoming Brick Walls: Establishing A Plan Of Attack
Tweet Every researcher will eventually run into that ancestor that seems impossible to get to passed. This is your brick wall ancestor. Overcoming a brick wall…