Archive for September, 2011

September 3, 2011 0

Contributing to the gen community

By Jessie in Uncategorized

There are a lot of  ways to contribute to the always-growing mass of genealogical information on the internet, be it cemetery transcription, keying records, obituaries, photographs, and whatever else. I have done all of those things mentioned and a few more in small quantities, but for some reason my favorite thing, the thing that makes [...]

September 2, 2011 0

Archives.com and the U.S. Federal Census

By Jessie in Uncategorized

As every other genblog I read has been stating, Archives.com is adding the U.S. Federal Census to their collection. Now, I don’t subscribe to Archives.com, although I’m sure there’s a lot of really helpful documents available, but I can’t afford anything more than Ancestry right now as it is, so I have no general review. [...]

September 1, 2011 0

Genealogy starts with you

By Jessie in Uncategorized

I think the biggest thing I tend to forget when it comes to genealogy is that my life is just as important as those of the ancestors I’m researching. It may seem obvious, but I really had to sit and think about the fact that I need to write down things about myself. But what? [...]