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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 [...]
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 [...]
How Does a Genealogy Pedigree Chart Work?
A pedigree chart is a symbolic way of drawing a family tree, sort of like a stick figure is a symbolic way of drawing a person. There are plenty of notions about its invention and history, one theory being that the chart was developed in sixteenth century England by the College of Arms in London [...]
Why Your Kids Hate Genealogy
Just ask them. They’ll tell you it’s boring. As soon as you drag out the old photos of their ancestors, you’ll see them cringe. First of all, these people aren’t smiling. They look miserable. No wonder, just look at their uncomfortable clothes. You can’t see their necks because they have their shirts and dresses buttoned [...]
Why Are Genealogy People so Boring?
They dress in dark clothes, wearing glasses with lenses as thick as beer bottle bottoms. Their skin has the pallor of someone who spends too much time in dusty information crypts, and their voices seldom rise above the whisper used in solemn libraries. They are lost in a world of names and dates about obscure [...]
Family Trees Grow Upside Down
If you look at an oak tree, it’s obvious that the oldest part of the tree is at the bottom, and the newest is the smallest branches at the top. In fact, maples, sycamores and every other kind of tree grows that way—except one. Your family tree grows in the exact opposite direction, from the [...]
The Ancestors in My Grandpa’s Barn
My grandpa looked like he had stepped right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Suspenders, vest, little straw Panama hat, and never without his gold pocket watch and chain. When I was a little boy, every time I went to visit him, he would walk me down to the corner drugstore and buy me a [...]
Genealogy Research and Copyright Laws
You did it all yourself. You interviewed your older relatives. You found genealogical information on the Internet. You went to various libraries. You visited cemeteries, courthouses and other sources of information pertaining to your family history. You sent letters requesting information out of state. You recorded every fact you discovered and noted the source. At [...]
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 [...]
When a Family Tree Researcher Can’t Go to the Library
It’s bound to happen when you’re researching your family tree; you invariably run into situations where the information you need is only available from the library. The problem with trips to the library is that they get to be expensive. Not the library, of course, that’s free. It’s the time that it takes to get [...]
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