Download a PDF of my slides from Fold3 talk: PDF of Slides For those of you who were looking for more information on WWII Veterans records: Fire and Devastation! Reconstructing World War II Service and Ask Ancestry Anne: Why Can’t I Find My World War II Veterans Records? And to learn more about ordering Union... Continue Reading →
Cluster, Huddle, Flock: Slides and Spreadsheets from RootsTech 2019
As promised here are My Slides from the Cluster, Huddle, Flock talk today. Here is the assignment for researching around your ancestor in the census: Census Cluster Homework And the Example Cluster Spreadsheet
RootsTech 2018: Slides and Thoughts
Funny how things sometimes turn out different than you plan. Thursday I was supposed to give my Research Guides presentation at RootsTech 2018, but a flu bug decided he had other plans for me. 🙁 Fortunately, my Ancestry colleague and friend Juliana Szucs stepped in and saved the day giving the presentation. You can find... Continue Reading →
Creating a State Research Guide: The Basics
I'm preparing for my RootsTech talk Research Guides: Researching Everything But People. If you are at RootsTech, the talk is at 4:30, March 1st in room 250A I'm going to show you how to gather bits and pieces of information so that you can create a research guide about places that will remind you where... Continue Reading →
Better Than Christmas: Pictures of Ancestors
One of the many great things about writing a blog about your ancestors, is you sometimes find family members who have something to share with you. And every time it happens, it fills me with delight. If you've been following me since the beginning you might remember my article about the 8 Payne children who... Continue Reading →
New Year, New Name, Adjusted Focus
Over the last year or so, I've been changing the way I look at my family history. If you've read Mulling and Pondering My Genealogy Toolkit or maybe Clusters: What Do You Need To Research? you will have an idea of my adjusted focus. The first cluster our ancestors lived in is always the family... Continue Reading →
Using Your Citations to Reveal Clusters In The US Census.
Citations are an art and there is usually more than one way to correctly write one. And given that I am obsessed with discovering clusters in my genealogy I took a good long look at how I could write my citations in the U.S. Census to maybe reveal some new information. Now, we all know,... Continue Reading →
Clusters: What Do You Need To Research?
So the more I ponder and the more I mull, it seems there is more than one type of cluster you can put your ancestor in. Clusters that are a single event. Signing a petition is a single event that creates a cluster. Being enumerated in 1830 in York County is a multi day event... Continue Reading →