The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) annual conference was recently held in Pittsburgh, PA, August 30-September 2, 2017.
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How I Solved It: Standing where your ancestors stood – thanks to primary source documents
Legacy Tree Genealogists has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog explains how the author traced the location in a picture through various documents she acquired during her research.
How I Solved It: Using Local Historical and Genealogical Societies to Further Your Genealogy Research
Will Moneymaker, blog author from the website Ancestral Findings, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog explains how to use local historical and genealogical societies to break down brick walls and help you find otherwise undiscoverable records. Will was able to locate his 4x great grandmother because he visited a…
How I Solved It: A Marriage Record, but no Father, for Hannah (Smith) Sawtell (1768-1827)
Randy Seaver, blog author from the website Genea-Musings.com, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog displays how Randy researches and pays attention to little details in records he’s found throughout New England to help determine the parents of Hannah Smith. He also outlines how it’s not an…
How I Solved It: Genealogy, Free or Fee: Search for Clues in Family Hands
Marian Wood, blog author from the website Climbing My Family Tree, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog reviews a “Genealogy Go-Over” and is a follow-up to our post earlier this week also from Marian Wood. It involves another find that is helped by the address book and…
How I Solved It: Treasure Chest Thursday: Mom’s Address Book Solves a Burk Mystery
Marian Wood, blog author from the website Climbing My Family Tree, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog tells how she used her mother’s address book as an unconventional resource that we don’t often think about. It’s a good reminder to look at everything when going through a…
How I Solved It: Nigel and Trevor Brent: My Forgotten Brothers
Suzi Brent, blog author from the website Family Mystery, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. Her blog discusses how she started researching her family tree online which resulted in findings that led to finding two half-brothers (twins) that she never knew about. Upon further investigation through various resources,…
How I Solved It: 3 Reasons to Revisit Your Research: Discovering the Story of C.B. Royston, Confederate Soldier
Diana Elder, blog author from the website Family Locket, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. Her blog reminds us that new records are indexed and available online every single day. As this happens, it’s always a good idea to revisit ancestors to try and find new information.
How I’m doing better family history with RootsFinder
My quest for better family history has been going for 25 years. I started as a teenager in the 90’s. Computers were just becoming “a thing” (it was a big deal to have an email address) and genealogy was just beginning to make a presence on the emerging Internet. I got A TON of booklets and…
How Do I Start My Family History Research with RootsFinder?
A few of our new users have asked “How do I start my family history research?” Thanks to partner hints and the web clipper, it’s much faster and easier start family history research with RootsFinder than other software programs. Here’s how you can begin building your family tree. 1. Start family history research fast by…
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