Vol. 21, No. 16 - February 24, 2016
Why Some Family Tree Websites Don’t Work |
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Sometimes, novice genealogists wonder if the subscription and non-subscription genealogy websites really work. If they have actually started using them, they may not be getting as much out of these sites as they imagined. If you are a beginning genealogist and are not finding the type of information you expect on family tree and genealogy research websites, it is usually not because they don’t work. These sites are very
reliable and have quite valuable information you would otherwise have to travel long distances to locate, or pay high fees to get through the mail. If they didn’t work, they wouldn’t have millions of happy subscribers and users. The issue with most beginning genealogists and family tree websites is that they don’t know how to use them to their best advantage.
If you’re a beginning genealogist and want to learn how to use family tree
websites so they work for you, and you’re able to get the best possible information on your family by using them, here’s what you need to know...
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Latest Genealogy Gold Podcast
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Have you ever wondered where your ancestor lived? You can often use old plat maps to discover the location of their homestead. In this episode of the Ancestral Findings Podcast I’ll show you how to read these maps…
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A Review of Old Fulton Postcards |
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Old Fulton Postcards is a wonderful and little known site for genealogical research for people with New York connections. The site is totally free, which makes it even better. It contains over 23 million scanned pages from old newspapers, most of them from New York, though a few are from other states, and even Canada. The newspapers go all the way back to the early 1800’s and all the way up to the 1980’s. The site is
searchable in a number of different ways, and learning to search in the best way will ensure you get the results you need without having to scroll through thousands of results. Best of all, by discovering mentions of your ancestors in old New York newspapers (which include newspapers from across the entire state), you may solve long-standing family mysteries and discover information you would never have found anywhere else...
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This Week’s Free Genealogy Lookups |
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- 1900 Census Index: New England, CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, and VT
- 1900 Census Index: DE, DC, MD, PA, OH, VA, and WV
- 1910 Census, Idaho
Index
- Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers Military Records
- Immigrants to America,
1600’s-1800’s
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Click here to submit your Hard to Find Surname.
What Moves Us to Make Art? |
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As you know by now, I love to follow Brooks Jenson’s podcasts and writings. One of my favorite pieces is an editorial he wrote entitled “Why Make Art?” In this piece, he talked about the way that art can seem like an unessential thing to do when we could all be out bettering the world in some other way. Of course, he proved that art is, in fact, essential, but I don’t want to repeat the things that he said here.
Instead, I want to build on these ideas by showing you some of the things that motivate us to make artistic photographs. I think that, within some of these motivations, we’ll find yet more answers as to why art, whether it be photography or something else, is so essential to humanity...
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