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Timelines and Your Family Tree |
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Ancestry.com has rolled out a whole new look in its online family trees. If you haven’t seen it yet, it is worth exploring. You can always switch back to the old version if you don’t like it. The cool thing about the new family trees on this most well-known of online
genealogy websites is that timelines have been added to them. The timelines include things like national and local events that were going on during your ancestors’ lives, at certain times in their lives. This helps put them in their real historical context. It’s an enormously helpful tool for understanding the times your ancestor lived in, how those times may have shaped who they were, and provides a good research tool if you are writing a biography or larger family
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The Difference Between Wills and Probate Documents |
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When you are doing genealogy, you will most likely eventually go into court records and look for the wills of your ancestors. Wills can have a huge amount of previously unknown genealogical information in them. You can confirm relationships with them, learn new relationships, and get an idea of the lifestyle of your ancestor by looking at the money they’re giving away and the belongings they are assigning to various
relatives. People have been making wills for centuries, so it’s not a new thing. You will even find wills dating from the early middle ages, and sometimes even earlier. The will of Cecily Neville in 1495 in England, for example, includes one of the earliest mentions of her then four-year-old great-grandson, the future King Henry VIII... Read More
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Oral histories are a crucial part of good genealogy research. Whether you're conducting them or reading them, they provide invaluable information. Here’s why.
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3 Essential Principles of Color Photography |
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When working with color photographs, it’s easy to simply choose a dominant color or a color cast without thinking too much about why certain colors work and how they affect our perception of an image. However, when manipulated skillfully, color has the ability to transform a dull image into something more dynamic. Color doesn’t just set the mood. It creates a visually attractive image or make certain elements within the
image stand out more than others. Instead, when the right shades are chosen, a great color photograph is full of life and emotion. I'll show you three of the things that I consider as I create color images... Read More
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