What I Was Reading This Week: Looking for bonds by The Legal Genealogist 4 Things To Do Before You Donate Your Genealogy by Amy Johnson Crow Copyright and the recipe by The […]
A Few Steps Closer to a Death Date and a Burial Place — 52 Ancestors: #6 Elizabeth Jane Wallace

There are a lot of things I know about Elizabeth. Her parents. Her husband. Her children. But I didn’t know when she died or where her final resting place was. And it […]
Roots Tech! Slave Petitions! 52 Ancestors! — It’s Follow Friday!

What I Was Reading This Week: A 1779 Slave Petition finally passes in the New Hampshire Legislature, 233 years late from Nutfield Genealogy Just Go Do It. Now. from No Story […]
Slides from RootsTech Presentations –Motivation Monday

I presented two lectures at RootsTechs 2014: Learning How To Tune Your Ancestry.com Search Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective: Extracting Stories from Military Records on Ancestry.com and Fold3 If you were […]
Early Research. Sloppy Research. Lots of Questions. 52 Ancestors #5: Mary Elizabeth Gillespie

Over time, we all get better at genealogy. We learn better ways to search, to analyze and how to prove that which seems unprovable. The first group of family you work on […]