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Pam Journey, a genealogy friend of mine, is a whiz at organizing her records. Pam can look up any source citation on her genealogy software, then walk over to her massive collection of three-ring binders and turn straight to the original record. I should be so lucky. This year...
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AncestorNews: Daily Life in the Civil War Premium
When I saw the movie Gods and Generals, I started thinking about how hard it is to comprehend the daily life of our Civil War ancestors—both soldiers and civilians. I have a fairly extensive library of pioneer women's diaries, and because they really do give a clear picture of...
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AncestorNews: Just Another Day in the Colonies Premium
Genealogy has made me an avid historian. I want to know what my ancestors ate, the names and types of plants they used, how they built their houses and what kind of clothes they wore. I recently picked up two books detailing American Colonial life: Plants of Colonial Days...
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AncestorNews: Death Records Premium
AncestorNews: Death Records Mary D. Taffet of Syracuse, NY, responded to last week's column about everyday life in the Civil War. She has begun to transcribe her collection of Civil War letters. Check them out at homepages.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/letter_series.htm. I hope you all enjoy her Web site and...
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AncestorNews: DNA Deliberation Premium
I'm seriously considering using DNA testing to help break open a couple of extremely difficult family lines.
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AncestorNews: Find a Cemetery Online Premium
On my next trip to Missouri, I want to hunt up the Shore family cemetery, the burial place of my Moravian Shore (Schor) family who emigrated here from Switzerland in 1750. Although I know the cemetery exists (I've found reference to it in a Shore genealogy book) I wasn't...
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AncestorNews: Saving Heirlooms from Natural Disasters Premium
Most of you probably read about the horrible wildfires that burned through San Diego County last month. Although part of my family was evacuated during the first few days, all of our homes were safe. Hundreds of other people weren't so lucky. As I stood on my balcony the...
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AncestorNews: Better Letters Premium
Although my aunt passed away two years ago, my cousin waited until her father was also gone before beginning the monumental task of sorting through everything in their house. Because I'm the appointed family historian, I've been given the task of going through boxes and boxes of old photos and...
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Don't get in a bind hunting down old books. We'll teach you online tricks for turning up rare and out-of-print volumes.
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AncestorNews: Blog Your Family Premium
A couple of years ago, an interesting phenomenon hit the Web. Called a WebLog (or blog for short), it gave people who didn't want to build Web pages a way to have a site without the HTML headache. (HTML, as you probably know, stands for Hypertext Markup Language—the code...
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