The Getting Started with Genealogy Book at Genealogy How To .com

An earlier posting suggested the Public Broadcasting System(PBS) series Who Do You Think You Are as a worthwhile dive into genealogy as seen through the eyes of famous people in entertainment, such as Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker, Yo Ma Ma and Eva Longoria Parker.
I am coming back to this now having seen several of [...]

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Gary Minder of Poulsbo, WA  has created and offers for free incredibly useful spreadsheets for some of the most important genealogical data we will find  in our research. He requests a small donation, but the utility far exceeds any cost. His work can be found at http://www.censustools.com/
Gary says: Ever try entering extracted census data into [...]

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Who Do You Think You Are? begins Friday, March 5, 2010 at 8/7 Central on NBC.
Share a heartwarming journey through family history with Sarah Jessica Parker, Emmitt Smith, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon and Spike Lee as they discover the stories of their ancestors.
Who Do You Think You Are? also shares ideas [...]

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As one’s research approaches those ancestors living in the 17, 18 and 19th centuries, one faces monetary numbers no longer in use in the United States.
In order to create a reasonable description of the lives and times of those ancestors it is often useful to describe their wealth or lack thereof, to envisage what a [...]

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One can better establish birth dates by knowing when the Census was actually taken. That date is nearly impossible to determine because it is generally not recorded. But one can get closer to the actual birth date by knowing the instructions given to the Enumerators.
U.S. Census enumerators were instructed to take down the names of [...]

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When one performs research for ancestors and the lives they lived in the past, it is worth consideration to include historical events and matters as they stood at a particular point in time. I will offer a few examples from my own efforts only to suggest a train of thought.
My father joined the Army in [...]

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If you have any connection with your ancestors to New England, I highly recommend you join the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS). The value of this organization can not be overstated. They are a gold mine to researchers!
Now, the NEHGS has created an alliance with Footnote.com. Footnote has a free search capability, but requires [...]

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