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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Using the 1940 Census to Build an Interesting Family History

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All of the excitement around the April release of the 1940 Census has gotten me planning my and pre-researching to get a head start. What...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Separating the Wrong Records, New FamilySearch Tree

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Here are some of my thoughts after 4 days working with the New Familysearch Tree . The tree I found for my family contained several wrong an...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

My intro to New Family Search Tree: From Sublime to Ridiculous

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I emailed Ron Tanner asking to become a part of the Beta Test for the New Family Search Family Tree. I just received an invitation today. I...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Log Cabins and Log Houses

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Nicolas Gibbs's Log House This being Presidents' Day I got to thinking about the much discussed Log Cabin birth. This humble birthp...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

WikiTree Collaboration

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Shakers Mercer County, Kentucy Working again on Callahan line since I made contact with another researcher through WikiTree. I haven...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Received Knox County, TN Deeds Indexes

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Nan's Trip Doc. Technology is such a wonderful thing! I emailed the Knox County, TN archives asking for copies of deed index pages f...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Ancestry Family Search Chrome Extension

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Google Chrome browser extensions were mentioned at RootsTech. As I understood it at least one of them was not available yet? I decided t...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

General Hospital (County USC) and a Breakthrough

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I was so happy to have finally caught Huell Howser's California's Gold program about the now closed County General USC Hospital. I...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

What I learned from RootsTech 2012

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I've spent many hours the past few days listening to the streaming sessions at Rootstech . I did the same last year. I've learned ...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

WDYTYA Premiere Problems

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Awkward? That's the word that comes to mind when I think about this episode. Martin's ancestors were involved in some very interes...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

FT DNA BUSY? Or are they torturing us?

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This is the message we received from FT DNA regarding why Craig Forgey's results were delayed Forget watering boarding When Craig r...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Publishing Your Family History or Making Your own Reference books

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I've put together a brief narrative and descendant report using my Genealogy Software program, and Microsoft Word. I then saved it as ...
Monday, January 30, 2012

When fact and speculation become confused

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Often researchers have speculated about events which they did not have direct evidence for. Sometimes these specualtions become more than t...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Can you spot the problems?

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The following family group was compiled by a researcher who used the Scottish Church records at Family Search. The last child, Mary Fisher, ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

The Mysterious John Beaird

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Nan Harvey just found a marriage record for Eleanor/ Elinor Fisher and John Beaird. I suspected they had married in the late 1780's or ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Breast Complaint a Misdiagnosis?

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Now I am wondering whether "Breast Compliant" was a misdiagnosis? I am sure an accurate diagnosis would be hard to come by in ea...
Monday, January 16, 2012

What was "Breast Complaint"?

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Early medical terminology can be confusing. I've been looking for definitions of some of the diseases my early family had. Some of the...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

West Fork of Flat Creek Found?

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Field Stone marking Boston Grave's burial site on Little Flat Creek I've been continuing to trace the land of Hugh Forgey's ...