Vol. 21, No. 63 — September 14, 2016
Genealogy Notes: Why You Need Them and How to Take Them the Right Way |
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It won’t do you any good to research your family history if you can’t remember what you found. Taking notes in genealogy is a must, not only for recording important information, but also for transcribing it onto a more permanent record repository, such as genealogy software. However, you can’t just copy down any information you find in any old way. No matter how good you are at
interpreting your own handwriting, shorthand, and scribblings in the margins, you need to take a more measured approach to notes in genealogy. You don’t want to get home with those notes and find you don’t understand what you wrote, and/or can’t figure out what piece of information goes with other tidbits you wrote down on the page. Here is why you need to take careful notes in genealogy research, and how to take them...
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Latest Genealogy Gold Podcast
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Are you starting your Canadian genealogy search and aren't sure where to find the good record sources? In this episode, I’ll show you the top Canadian research sites online.
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How to Overcome the Difficulties of Finding Female Ancestors |
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One of the biggest challenges in genealogy is the pursuit of female ancestors. This is because the females were so often absorbed into their husband’s families (assuming they got married), taking on their husband’s surnames, and losing their original identities in historical documents. You will often find a mention of a female ancestor in a historical document, but more often than not, she is referred to using only her first
name or her first and married name. Too often, the maiden name is seemingly lost. While in some cases, it really may be lost, this usually is not the case. If you do your research right, you can uncover the maiden names and make the correct connections to your female ancestors’ families of origin.
In doing so, you discover entire new branches of your family and learn more about your own origins. Here are some techniques you can use to
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Genealogy Helps, Vol. 4
With Genealogy Helps, Vol. #4, you can learn about research basics, read interesting stories about historical locations and international searches and immerse
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Where Did Your Ancestor Live? How to Interpret Plat Maps |
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Finding your ancestors’ homestead, or at least where it used to be, is a really exciting part of genealogy. If you know where they lived, you can go visit the place in person and see things from their perspective. While the area may have changed (though in some cases it may have not changed at all, or very little), you can get an idea of what your ancestors may have seen every day and the
landscape, climate, and natural flora and fauna that shaped their daily lives. You can quite literally walk in their footsteps. It is a wonderful way to get closer to your ancestors and to know them better... Learn More
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The Art of Photography: Exploring Photojournalism |
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes photojournalism as “journalism in which written copy is subordinate to pictorial usually photographic presentation of news stories.” This is how the genre is defined, but it seems to me to be a bit lacking in detail. It doesn’t tell the whole story, which incidentally, is what photojournalism
is supposed to do. So what is photojournalism, really? At its heart, it is storytelling. Photojournalism doesn’t usually rely on one single descriptive image. Instead, it presents images in a sequence that tells a robust story.
What makes this genre different from, say, documentary photography is that photojournalism relies on a strict code of ethics. In other words, you present the story as you see it, not slanted in one direction or another, and without skipping over
details that, if left out, might give the story a completely different meaning. Photojournalism is the honest documentation of life. To understand the true meaning of this kind of photographic storytelling and honesty, let’s take a look at a few
legendary photojournalists...
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