Events / Featured / Genealogy Businesses
12 Sep, 2016
Third Annual 2017 RootsTech Innovator Showdown Boasts $100,000 in Prizes The global innovation competition is now accepting entries Salt Lake City (September 12, 2016)—RootsTech, the world’s largest family history and technology conference, is now accepting entries for the 2017 Innovator...
26 Jun, 2016
If you follow my blog, you’ll already know what a geek I am for genealogy, technology, and organizational tools. So you won’t be surprised at my latest complete geek-out over a new website / tool that I came across this...
Archives / Libraries / Featured / Research Tips
24 Jun, 2016
Two articles showed up in the news this week involving a document found in the National Archives regarding President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, that had previously been overlooked, and not indexed. The first article suggested that it shouldn’t be called...
Family Histories / Featured / Location / Maps
1 Apr, 2016
I read an article yesterday about finding historical aerial maps (see the credit at the bottom), but felt it could use a little expanding with the actual “how tos”, so here’s my post. Two highlighted program from the article are a...
Cool Tools / Family Histories / Featured / Location / Maps / Research Tips
28 Feb, 2016
If you are the least bit interested in using maps in researching your ancestors, this article by ESRI is a Must Read. What a wonderful marriage of Technology, Mapping, and Genealogical Research!! Teaching GIS while learning about the past Source: GIS...
Archives / Libraries / Featured
24 Feb, 2016
“Peek Inside the Grisly, Salacious Case Files of NYC’s Head Coroner in the Early 1900s” Source: Peek Inside the Grisly, Salacious Case Files of NYC’s Head Coroner in the Early 1900s , an excellent article featured in Atlas Obscura. Don’t you love...
Featured / News / Research Tips / Technology
16 Feb, 2016
We always like to add a picture or photos to our genealogy reports, blog posts, and social media, but don’t always have the exact picture we want in our own photo collection. Recently I came across some very good information that is...
Cool Tools / Featured / Research Tips / Technology
6 Jan, 2016
I am goofy over spreadsheets. I love being able to enter, calculate, sort, and save information in a dozen different ways. Excel was my first love, but Google Sheets won me over with the ability to share, edit, and access...
Cool Tools / Featured / Technology
5 Jan, 2016
This blog post isn’t about a better way to keep your pants up. Nor does it have anything to do with suspending anything in a physical sense. The Great Suspender is the name of a really neat Google Chrome add-on...
Featured / Location / Maps / Research Tips
29 Sep, 2015
Boundary lines matter a lot in genealogy research. You don’t want to waste any of your research time hunting down an event in a county that didn’t even exist at the time. Or perhaps your folks lived closer to a courthouse...
Events / Featured / Genealogy Businesses
12 Sep, 2016
Third Annual 2017 RootsTech Innovator Showdown Boasts $100,000 in Prizes The global innovation competition is now accepting entries Salt Lake City (September 12, 2016)—RootsTech, the world’s largest family history and technology conference, is now accepting entries for the 2017 Innovator...
2 Sep, 2016
I haven’t written enough about FindMyPast, but they have an excellent collection of original records. If you have UK ancestors, they are the subscription to have for sure! This new subscription deal is a great way to try them out!...
21 Jul, 2016
I’m a little slow getting this press release out, but it’s important to note that Twile is really growing and adding developers, which means the site will continue to become more and more excellent! If you’re not familiar with Twile.com...
28 Jun, 2016
PRESS RELEASE: JUNE 28, 2016 Findmypast celebrates 4 th of Julywith free access to more than 1 billion records From June 29 th until July 6 th 2016, over 1 billion UK, US and Irish records will be completely free...
26 Jun, 2016
If you follow my blog, you’ll already know what a geek I am for genealogy, technology, and organizational tools. So you won’t be surprised at my latest complete geek-out over a new website / tool that I came across this...
Archives / Libraries / Featured / Research Tips
24 Jun, 2016
Two articles showed up in the news this week involving a document found in the National Archives regarding President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, that had previously been overlooked, and not indexed. The first article suggested that it shouldn’t be called...
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