August 21, 2020 After nearly six months spending most of my time at home, I’m rapidly arriving at a point that I thought would be impossible: I’m actually losing my motivation to do genealogy. It’s not that I’m not interested in finding out more about some of my long lost ancestors. I’m still as focused …
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Ancestry Bought by Blackstone
August 14, 2020 For the last week or so the genealogy blogs have been full of the news that a 75% share of Ancestry was recently purchased by Blackstone, an investment group. Bloggers such as Judy Russell, Randy Seaver, Roberta Estes and many more have all written blogs describing the details and what they think …
Using Online Trees to Add to your own Tree
August 7, 2020 At a genealogy society meeting a while ago, I heard something that made me gasp. Someone in the audience recommended that a good way to grow your family tree was to accept hints from a site such as My Heritage or Ancestry. He suggested that this was simply done by clicking on …