(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Column 4-28-2015) What makes family history research fun (at least in my opinion) is not really learning our ancestors’ names. It is learning who they were as a person. If you take off their name tag, can you still pick them out from the rest of the crowd? What …
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Using Historical Maps to Learn About Your Ancestors
(From Kimberly Powell’s Weekly About Genealogy Blog 4-21-2015) Many family history research problems can be solved with the use of maps, atlases, and gazetteers. Historical maps can help you find and picture where your relatives were born, resided, attended school, shopped, voted, traveled over land or water, courted, married, raised families, and were laid to …
Back to Basics
(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Column 3-24-2015) It’s somehow been 15 years since I started writing for About.com! I thought I would celebrate this momentous milestone by getting back to the basics….something we all need to do every now and then to keep from missing important clues From cemetery transcriptions to census records, millions …