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Relatively Curious "We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~ Walt Disney

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June 10

Managing your email – Tips for genealogists

Email is an important part of any genealogy research project. Whether it’s contacting relatives or contacting strangers for more information on an ancestor; requesting documents, copies, photos that mention your ancestor;...
Events / Featured / Research Guides / Helps / Websites

April 25

A new resource for everything DNA

Have you heard about the new website, NationalDNADay.com yet? It is a new, free resource to the genealogy community celebrating all things DNA, as they relate to genealogy research. The...
Books / Featured / Genealogy / Research Guides / Helps

March 8

Build your Genealogy Library for 99 cents or less

It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to have an extensive digital library of genealogy reference books. These kindle editions are either free or just .99 cents, and make it...
Cool Tools / Featured

January 31

JoyFlips: Connecting old print photos and family storytelling

JoyFLIPS is a new, completely free iPhone photo scanning/editing/sharing/storing app. With the JoyFLIPS app, you can quickly and easily make high-quality scans of loose photos, photos still in albums, or even...
Featured / Technology

January 7

Tech stuff: Zapier for task automation

How I use Zapier is more than a two-sentence Facebook reply, hence this post. Zapier.com is an “if this, then that” program that works with tons of different other...
Featured / News

December 10

Only the Most Interesting News for Genealogists …

I’ve added a page to this website with a pinboard-style direct, live, connection to our online collection of all completely hand-picked, interesting genealogy-related news articles and stories that we share...
Cool Tools / Featured / Maps / Websites

December 5

Enhancements to the Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps tool

It’s been a while since I last wrote about Randy Majors‘ Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps tool — a very handy interactive map that will show you the boundaries of...
Books / Family Histories / Featured / Genealogy / Research Tips

October 20

Digital Quaker Collection

If you have Quaker ancestors, you will definitely want to spend some time browsing through the Digital Quaker Collection at the Earlham School of Religion (a graduate theological school for...
Featured / Genealogy

October 19

Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton Will Keynote RootsTech 2017

“The story of Roots traces a family’s journey from Africa to America and back. At RootsTech, I’ll share some of my own journey of family, storytelling and the influence of...
Events / Featured / Genealogy Businesses

September 12

Got a great idea for a genealogy business or product? Would $100k help?

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...

January 6

Write Your Life Story in 2017 the easy way!

FamilySearch put out this press release a couple days ago, and I really think it’s worth sharing. How many times have you thought to yourself, “I really ought to write...

Genealogy Businesses / News

December 2

New Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records available at to search at Findmypast

Over 486,000 RIC service records released online Thousands of new records added to existing collection of RIC histories & directories Today, December 2nd 2016, over 530,000 Royal Irish Constabulary records...

Events

November 8

Leadership Expert Liz Wiseman to Keynote RootsTech Innovator Summit

Salt Lake City, Utah, (8 November 2016)—Do you multiply or diminish intelligence? Liz Wiseman, a leadership strategist, best-selling author, and inspiring speaker whose recent clients include Disney, Microsoft, eBay and...

Cool Tools / Genealogy

September 28

Twile Integrates with FamilySearch

I’m really excited about this, because of the possibilities it offers: Twile is a wonderful timeline application for your family tree. I can’t wait to play with this more, but...

Websites

September 2

FINDMYPAST LAUNCHES BEST VALUE SUBSCRIPTION ON THE MARKET

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...

Cool Tools / Technology

July 21

Twile is growing, expanding

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...

Relatively Curious "We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~ Walt Disney

Managing your email – Tips for genealogists

A new resource for everything DNA

Build your Genealogy Library for 99 cents or less

JoyFlips: Connecting old print photos and family storytelling

Tech stuff: Zapier for task automation

Only the Most Interesting News for Genealogists …

Enhancements to the Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps tool

Digital Quaker Collection

Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton Will Keynote RootsTech 2017

Got a great idea for a genealogy business or product? Would $100k help?

Write Your Life Story in 2017 the easy way!

New Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records available at to search at Findmypast

Leadership Expert Liz Wiseman to Keynote RootsTech Innovator Summit

Twile Integrates with FamilySearch

FINDMYPAST LAUNCHES BEST VALUE SUBSCRIPTION ON THE MARKET

Twile is growing, expanding

New DNA Guide by Blaine Bettinger at a great price!

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