Index of Blog Posts
Sep 2018 – Update Original Post: Here is a hint for bloggers: Document in a table or chart the items you are writing about, so you won’t have to wonder what a certain… Continue reading
My son
Link to memorial page for Juan Jose: https://juanjosemunoztodd.wordpress.com/ Born: 06 Aug 1984 – Died: 12 Apr 2015 Juan Jose Munoz, age 30 born: 06 August 1984, in Lansing, Michigan died: 12 April 2015, in Pueblo,… Continue reading
How To Work with Google News Archive
Step by step lesson on how to work with the huge Google News Archive collection.
1890 census… Aargh! – Barnard McCleary
Don’t you just hate it when your ancestor comes to the USA in 1860 at age 32 and the only records you can find are the Federal census for 1870, 1880 and 1900… Continue reading
How To Create a MS Word Table for Your Family Tree List
If you are like most genealogists, you have more than one tree for your family. And since you are a true genealogist you help other people with their trees, so you have their… Continue reading
How to transfer a list of all your trees to a table – in 4 easy steps
Capturing a small news item in an old newspaper can sometimes lead to a new blog post. I found the following small item about a 25th anniversary and tried to find some… Continue reading
How To Copy Family Search records to my computer
Here is a lesson on How To copy records from Family Search on to a computer. Update 22 Apr 2020: Thanks to Cathy Meder-Dempsey of Genealogy Bloggers I learned a new way of copying… Continue reading
Missouri newspaper – Google News Archive
Missouri 34 Alphabetical order State, Town name and Newspaper name Update 07July 2013 Correction of 1808 – that year is really 1898 Missouri – 34 Missouri – Canton Missouri… Continue reading
COVID-19 – How To Make Face Masks and Headbands – Videos
UPDATED: April 11, 2020 This is not a genealogy blog post, but it is an important post that should be viewed by a wider audience. In this blog post you will find a… Continue reading
Genealogy Lost and Found – Erich Martin
UPDATE: From the FaceBook page we got this today (18Mar2020) Erich Martin “Relatives of both families have contacted me! I’m so happy to be able to get these pics and other things back… Continue reading
Newspaper of The United States – Google News Archive
Many people have asked about the Enhanced Newspaper collection for USA only so I decided to post the link on top of the blog home page. Click to access table-of-states-2-sep-2017.pdf
How to Flip and Improve a photo or screen print of a Document
Christine on Genealogy Time Travellers (U.K. & World Wide) FaceBook group page asked the following: “HELP NEEDED! Can anyone do a ‘mirror’ reading of this page please and tell us what it says.… Continue reading
How To Fix Tiny screen prints and photos
Don’t you just hate seeing those tiny newspaper items on the family tree? I don’t mean tiny, as few words. I mean tiny as not cropped to fit the screen. I do not… Continue reading
How To Add Custom Events to Facts column on a Profile Page
In Ancestry dot com you will sometimes get some Source boxes on a profile page but there are no Facts to go along with the Source. This may occur when you bring in… Continue reading
Peter O’Connell – Family Tree – Michigan
Before you continue I want you to know that you will be shown examples of how you should transcribe an obituary, how to label your files of items that you collect and finally… Continue reading
Keeping track of all your trees
Updated 28 Jun 2020 – added an extra example tree at bottom of post and made both trees open in a new page. My last blog post was: HOW TO DOCUMENT NEWS WORTHY… Continue reading
How to document news worthy incident that affects many families
On 21 Jun 1914 in Oswego, New York a boat crossing a canal capsized and twelve (12) people were drowned. The twelve (12) victims came from seven different families: Adams, Crane, Dainer, Mogg,… Continue reading
How to put relationship on a profile page
Ancestry dot com “How To” Slide 1 of 12 1. Start of Lesson 1a. Diane has a tree and wants to know how to identify the relationship between the various people on the branches;… Continue reading