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3 Photo Identification Tips You Never Knew |
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Most genealogists have at least a few old family photos they can’t identify. It is very frustrating to know you have photos of your ancestors, but can’t place them in time or space, or even reveal their identities. You may have a photo of a direct ancestor that no one else has, and not even know it.
Fortunately, there are some sneaky photo identification techniques
you can use to give you an excellent idea of where and when a photo was taken. These clues will give you a much better idea of who is in the photo, and may even give you the information you need to make a definite identification.
Here are the three photo identification techniques. Start using them today to tease the hidden information out of our photos and make them reveal their secrets... Read More
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This Week’s Free Genealogy Lookups |
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Pennsylvania’s most influential early settlement was organized by a Quaker, William Penn. Chartered in 1681 by King Charles II, Penn’s colony was primarily made up of English Quakers but also included German, Dutch, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish. Over the next century, Penn’s “Holy Experiment” attracted huge groups of immigrants to Pennsylvania.
Between 1630 and 1642, approximately 30,000 people left England for Massachusetts. By the time of the American Revolution, nearly everyone still in Massachusetts could trace their ancestry to one of those 30,000 people.
Anyone with suspected colonial Virginia ancestry will almost certainly find something of interest here in the form of original source records, manuscripts, lineage records, or family histories, for this database
contains a treasure-trove of records that identify many of Virginia’s earliest immigrants and settlers.
Within the lineages, family histories, vital records and historical essays compiled and indexed in this database, you’ll find information on approximately 190,000 individuals. Read More
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Latest Ancestral Findings Podcast
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AF-017: Genealogy Basics: Birth Record Research Advice for Beginners Vital
records… records of births, deaths, and marriages… are a basic part of genealogy research. They tell you the important details of your ancestors’ lives, such as names, dates, and places associated with them. The information found in vital records can often be stepping off points for further avenues of research, as well. As a genealogist, you should ideally be collecting as many vital records as possible on your ancestors and reading every line of them. You never know when a hidden but important
piece of information will be on an unexpected place on a vital record...
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Free Genealogical Lookups |
Here are some sources you should be using in your genealogical research. Some are free and some are fee-based. I’ll continue to make updates to this page so you may want to bookmark for future reference and convenience. |
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