Genealogy and Family Tree Research

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I just posted my newest theme that would lend itself extremely well for any website or blog dealing with family tree, family history, historical and/or genealogy topics.

This theme is attractive and features vintage images and documents in a neutral color scheme.

If you’re in the market for a great… Continue reading

Recently I read a post on the dearMyrtle.com blog about ‘Pinball Genealogy’, a general description of which is the quick ‘bouncing’ from one source to another, attaching the obvious data and facts without taking the time to explore the document to fully investigate all the information available.

An example of… Continue reading

This is what I like to see – the big players in the field working together to preserve valuable documents, photos, etc. from the War of 1812 for free access and future use by genealogists and researchers.

On the Preserve the Pensions digitization website, Ancestry.com has pledged to match all… Continue reading

FamilySearch.org

Australia
Canada
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Hungary

It has become increasingly apparent recently that there are two distinct schools of thought regarding quality and depth in genealogy research. There are the genealogists who believe in working only with well-sourced, proven information – and then there are those of us who started our genealogical quests simply for the… Continue reading

I have just completed updating the Blythe Database with extensive new information, sources and images in the royal and medieval lines.

If you have tried to access the database only to find the images missing, that is because I have to delete the old associations to the images and create… Continue reading

 

I’ve long been a proponent of the open and free exchange of genealogy data to ensure ready access to information for everyone researching their family history.

This morning, however, I read “Cooperation Makes Records Available for Free” at FamilySearch.org and it made me think.

As much as I’d like… Continue reading

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