Vol. 21, No. 47 — June 19, 2016
Organizing Tips to Help Tidy up Your Genealogy Home Office |
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When you do a lot of genealogy research, you can find papers, photos, contact information, and even artifacts piling up in your workspace. If you don’t get these things organized, it becomes a lot more difficult to locate what you need when you need it. You may even lose some valuable research due to being disorganized. Even beginning genealogists can find their workspace getting cluttered before too long. Veterans may have
an entire room filled with things that need to be organized. The good news is that it is easy to organize your genealogy home office so you can find things easily. Here are some tips to do it the proper and simple way...
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Identifying Old Photographs |
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There are clues to your family history in old photographs. Discovering previously unknown family photos from generations ago is like uncovering genealogical gold. If you spend enough time online interacting with distant cousins you discover on genealogy websites, you will undoubtedly eventually find someone who has amazing photos they are willing to share with you. You may also have some old genealogical photos yourself.
Maybe you know who they are. Maybe you don’t (not labeling photos was a big problem in generations past, as people just assumed everyone who saw the photo would know who it was, and didn’t think of future generations needing this information). Either way, your old family photos can tell you far more about your ancestors than just what they looked like. They can tell a very interesting genealogical tale of that person’s life, times, and family. All you have to do to unlock these stories is to
know how to identify and interpret the photos. Here’s what you need to know to be able to do it...
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This Week’s Free Genealogy Lookups |
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Latest Genealogy Gold Podcast
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Low-tech record keeping still has an important part to play in modern genealogical research. Here are some organized ways to keep your records in order without a computer.
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Old Car City: When Nature and Old Cars Collide, It Makes Something Beautiful |
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If you love old cars and nature, why not blend the two with a visit to Old Car City in White, Georgia. One of the most unique places you will ever visit, Old Car City has the largest known collection of classic cars in a junkyard in the world. The cars are scattered throughout the yard, and nature has been allowed to come in and do its thing amongst
them. It is as if a forest has grown and sprouted old cars with it as part of the vegetation. With hundreds of cars and plenty of classic Old South greenery to explore, Old Car City is a place you won't soon forget...
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