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The Real Lessons of Genealogy
When I was in the third grade, I rode my bike to school, and all the way there my mind roamed the universe—castles and knights, cowboys, sports, outer space and comic book characters–but not one thought was given to school. I wasn’t interested in school. It was only an irritant and a constant interruption of [...]
Misleading Genealogy Advice for Beginners
Confusion. Busywork. Chasing your tail. Scattering your focus. Too many choices. Frustration. Loss of patience. These are things that continually plague new family tree researchers, and it’s not altogether their fault. The blame lies with the do-it-yourself instructions being handed out (or sold) by pseudo-experts, and sometimes by real experts. It’s not so much that [...]
Lazy Genealogists: How to Make Your Ancestors Come to You
If a genealogist from the past were to dog our steps these days, he would pound his fists while imagining how much more research he could have accomplished if he’d had access to a computer, and he could have done that research without having to travel. Travel? How about without leaving home? Or without even [...]
Are You Tweeting Your Descendants?
Nothing excites a family history researcher more than discovering letters from an ancestor. Why is that? Well, for one thing, letters usually contain names and dates, mention relatives and explain relationships, but they also offer a much deeper layer of information from the standpoint of genealogy. Letters convey the mood of your family member at [...]
The Dilemma of the Ancestress
Ancestress is a good word. It indicates the female gender by itself, instead of adding the word, “female” to the word, “ancestor.” What’s so special about that? The patriarchal nature of our society’s history has subjected the legal and social status of women to the control of men. Take surnames, for instance. A female is [...]
Another Way to Use the Internet for Family Tree Research
Everybody knows the power of the Internet when it comes to hunting for your ancestors. You can perform searches and read online tutorials and articles that break it all down and explain exactly what you need to do. But one of the cardinal rules of genealogy is to avoid duplicating the research that someone else [...]
How to Trace Your Family Tree if You’re African American
Every wonder why some professional genealogists hesitate to do family history research for African Americans? It boils down to this: a lack of written records. Toward the end of the second year of the Civil War, on the first day of 1863, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued. It stated that “all persons held as slaves [...]
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