Vol. 21, No. 17 - February 29, 2016
How to Network with Family Members Using Social Media for Genealogy Research |
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One of the most wonderful parts of modern genealogy is the ability to connect with distant relatives you've never met, but with whom you share common ancestors. You can meet these people in a variety of ways. Connecting on genealogy message boards is common. You might post a query or answer one about a certain family or individual. People who also have family connections to the family or individual will post responses, and
you eventually may exchange email addresses with some of them. You can also meet distant relatives through matches on DNA sites, and on online family tree sites like Ancestry.com, where you post a family tree, and others with connections to that tree message you. Finally, you can do your own research and discover modern relatives from various branches of your family and seek them out on social media.
In all of the other ways of meeting distant relatives online, they will normally be the ones approaching you, and will do so in a genealogical environment. You can decide whether you want to
communicate privately, and if you do, you may find you each have a treasure trove of genealogy to share with one another, including photographs, family Bibles, and more. You may even get invited to a family reunion of that branch of your family and meet even more extended family who can give you even more valuable information for your family tree. When you trace a family branch to the present and then seek out modern members of it on social media, these same rewarding genealogical
exchanges can happen, but you have to approach them a little differently than you would on a genealogy website, where random introductions from distant relations are expected...
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Quaker Persecutions in Puritan Massachusetts |
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The Puritans came to the American colonies to worship as they chose, as they believed the official Anglican church of England was corrupt. However, they did not extend that religious freedom to anyone else. Their goal was to build a solely Puritan community, and no other faiths were welcome. Any outside influences could easily corrupt their brand new and still fragile community. That is when the Quaker movement began in
England, newly arriving Puritans brought news to the colonies, and the leaders became vigilant. Ships were searched for Quakers and Quaker religious texts. Anyone found to be a Quaker or suspected of being one was either kept on the ship until it went back to England, or kept in jail until another ship could be found to take them back from whence they came...
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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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