September 6, 2019 Last week Ancestry unveiled their updated yearbook database. While they’ve long had a decent-sized collection of yearbooks, they’ve added over 100,000 new books to the collection. That’s good news for those of us who love yearbooks for their genealogical value. It’s maybe not such good news for those of us who hate …
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Find a Grave
August 23, 2019 If Find a Grave isn’t on your list of go-to websites for genealogy research, it probably should be. Find a Grave was started back in 1995 by Jim Tipton as part of his hobby of visiting burial sites of celebrities. At first, it only memorialized celebrities but was later expanded to allow …
An Unexpected DNA Result
August 16, 2019 Like many genealogists nowadays, I’ve taken DNA tests at various companies such as My Heritage, Ancestry, Family Tree DNA and Living DNA. I admit I haven’t gotten terribly serious about my results (or those of my husband and sister which I manage). Partly that’s because I haven’t had much in the way …