discovering your family history through cluster genealogy
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 there and would like a copy of my slides or are interested you can find the PDF's on my Slides and Presentations page.
I create Five Minute Find videos for Ancestry.com I've added 3 more to the How To Videos page: Are You a Hints Power User : Overwhelmed by your Ancestry.com hints? Spend five minutes with Anne Gillespie Mitchell and you’ll learn how hints power users get the most of their hints. Hidden Treasures in Your State... Continue Reading →
I found these from a post Elissa Scalise Powell made on the TGF. It is a series of videos by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania entitled: Genealogists Share: What I Wish I Knew Then. They contain sage words of wisdom. Elise Scalise Powell: Genealogists Share: What I Wish I Knew Then (Bad things happen when... Continue Reading →
This morning when I checked my facebook page, I found this, taken by my very talented cousin-in-law, Harrison Moore. This was his view of the Washington DC as inauguration day dawned January 21, 2013. Regardless of how you feel about this particular election or any other, there is something uniquely American in the way our... Continue Reading →
I’m currently working on being a Certified Genealogist (CG). There are 7 parts, and the one I’m currently working on is the KDP or Kinship Determination Project. I can’t publish my work as I go along, but I thought if I did a parallel project and published the process it might help me figure out... Continue Reading →
Is your blog shareable? Do you share posts that you read? If you want to drive traffic to you blog, make sharing easy. A click of the button should be all it takes for your readers to share your latest observation. If you have a wordpress blog, then you should use the sharing widget: Sharing... Continue Reading →
If you don't have Professional Genealogy edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills in your library, today is the day to add it. The publisher, Genealogical.com is offering at 40%. Even if you don't plan on being a Professional Genealogist, you will find lots of good information in here. Each chapter is edited by a different person or... Continue Reading →
My current job at Ancestry.com is working on improving the product we put in Libraries and Institutions. Today I'm off to the Allen County Public Library to see how the do things and use our product. I'll be shadowing librarians, doing two presentations, and with any luck I'll be sneaking in some research time! Should... Continue Reading →
While I was at FGS 2012 in Birmingham, Alabama I took the plunge and started my CG clock. I was being nudged. Mark Lowe said something about steel toed boots! I had been considering doing this since I graduated from my BU course and the time seemed right. I'm also doing this with 3 friends....a... Continue Reading →