July 31, 2020 When I began researching my family history many years ago, one of the first families I chose to focus on was my mother’s paternal grandparents. I knew very little about the Dawson Family other than that my great grandparents had been born and raised in Norfolk, England and had immigrated to the …
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Changes to Ancestry’s DNA Shared Matches
July 24, 2020 By now I’m sure everyone has heard about the upcoming changes to the way Ancestry lists DNA shared matches. Ancestry released a white paper discussing the changes to their system, and there have been numerous blog posts by movers and shakers in the genealogical community such as Blaine Bettinger, Roberta Estes, Diahan …
Finding Mary in 1870
July 17, 2020 As I’ve written before, whether you started your genealogy last week or forty years ago, your go-to record for American research is the U.S. Federal census. It has been taken every ten years since 1790, and most of the censuses, up through 1940, for most areas of the country, are available for …