Vol. 22, No. 21 — June 31, 2017
3 Online Genealogy Classes
You Can Take to Improve Your Skills |
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Do you wish to improve your genealogy research skills? Whether you’re a beginner or an intermediate-level genealogist, you have room to hone your skills to make your research better, more accurate, and more thorough, so you can discover more about your ancestors. There are books you can read on the subject, and they can be quite helpful in improving your skills. However, nothing is quite like
improving your skills through a class. You will actually get hands-on practice that will help you remember what to do when you're out in the field doing it on your own. You don’t have to go to a college or adult education facility to take a genealogy research class. The Internet offers plenty. Here are the three best ones you should consider taking if you are serious about getting your research skills to the next level... Read More
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Who’s Who in the American Revolution:
Patrick Henry |
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Patrick Henry is a name you often hear associated with the American Revolution, but how much do you really know about who he was and what role he played in the conflict? You may know he is the one associated with the famous quote, “Give me liberty or give me death.” However, he surely must have contributed more to the Revolutionary cause than just a quote we can put on calendars, mugs, and
t-shirts today. In fact, Henry was a big player in the American Revolution, and in the forming of the new government of the United States after it. Here’s what you need to know about this interesting historical man... Read More
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The Blizzard of 1886: When the West Froze |
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The Great Blizzard of 1886-1887 is one of the harshest blizzards on record for the Plains states (though at the time, most of them were still territories, not yet admitted as states to the Union). The blizzard is immortalized and made famous for school children everywhere in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novel, “The Long Winter,” which is part of her Little House on the Prairie series of books. Wilder
weathered this blizzard as a teenager in South Dakota with her family and describes the hardships her family and the town went through during this infamous weather event. It is a wonderful first-hand account of someone who went through the harsh winter and survived, during times before houses had things like electricity, indoor heating, and hot water plumbing... Read More
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Genealogy Helps, Volume 4 (Free eBook) |
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Genealogy Helps, Volume 4, picks up in the time when Texas was its own country and looks at the immigrants who came to Canada and as far afield as England and Ireland... Free Download
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Latest Genealogy Gold Podcast
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The Missouri Compromise was an important factor in the events that led up to the American Civil War. On today’s episode, I'll talk about how it contributed to the war that was to come.
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Change is a factor that permeates every part of our lives. Everything changes as the days, weeks, months and years go by. Many people, maybe even most people, are resistant to change, at least to certain types of it. In photography, for instance, change can sometimes feel aggravating. Who wants to learn all about a new camera system when the one you are already using once worked just
fine?
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