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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 [...]
The Twin Hats of a Genealogist
Genealogists wear two hats. First hat is that of the rational, fact-finding researcher. This is the no-nonsense hat of the person who scours the information repositories, who photographs and scans, who copies, transcribes and indexes, who pins down significant dates and places, and who footnotes and documents every source. But there is another hat, that [...]
The Social Security Death Index—How Do You Use It for Genealogy?
It’s true that the name seems a little grim and impersonal—a government index of death—but what else are you going to call it? The name, Social Security Death Index is accurate, blunt and to the point. Back in 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, and that led to the Social [...]
Genealogy Research CDs–Are They an Effective Source of Data?
In the old days there were only a couple of ways you could research your own family tree. If you were patient, you could send requests via the U. S. Mail to the repositories of your family information, meaning libraries, cemeteries, courthouses, or any of the other places where genealogical information can be held. Granted, [...]
The Genealogical Value of Junk
When you take up the task of researching your family tree, it soon imposes a perspective on everything you do. Most people can clean out the clutter from their attic or garage thinking only about value–whether a particular item is worth saving or should go in the trash. But when you start tracing your ancestry, [...]
Reasons You Should Visit Cemeteries to Search for Your Ancestors
Some consider it morbid. Others feel that it will bring back sad memories. And some just find it “creepy.” These are some of the reasons that a lot of family tree researchers avoid visiting cemeteries. But when all of your leads have dried up, and your genealogy research comes up against a dead end, you [...]
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