Genealogy Trading Cards

Happy New Year everyone! My Christmas Break is almost over and I decided to take some time to work on a project I’ve always thought would be fun.  Being a teacher, I’m always on the lookout for fun ideas to use with my students.  A web site I came across awhile back is called Big [...]

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Best Motivation EVER!

I love the “thrill of the hunt”.  Looking at a timeline and thinking, “I wonder if they….” and then looking for the record.  Finding new names in birth records and the “AHA!” of finding a connection in a probate record. What I DON’T love is entering the data in my genealogy program!  To be more [...]

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Working It Wednesday – Linking Group Sheets

I have groups sheets written in Excel – which I love.  But I’ve moved more to group sheets written in Word because I love the ability write my citations easily and to keep them well organized.  But since my group sheets in Word are sized to fit in my planner, I do still use my [...]

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FTM Dreamin’

I’ve spent quite a bit of time with my new FTM 2010 software and as I work through my database, I’ve been thinking about things I love about the software and things I’d like to see improved. I love that I can download my tree from Ancestry and all of the photos I’ve uploaded come [...]

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When software THINKS it knows what I want…

I began my attempt to begin a new tree without actually starting from scratch in order to fix my source citations.  (My hat’s off to Amy at WeTree!  I wish I had the determination to do it the way she is!) My plan was to install my new FTM 2010 software and to download my [...]

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Scrambled Sources

I’ve been doing genealogy research for a long time and I’ve learned a lot about what NOT to do and sometimes I have an overwhelming desire to start over!  When I first started researching my family, I documented nothing.  How could I possibly forget the joy of finding that piece of information?  SURELY, I didn’t [...]

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