I recently moved from Connecticut back to Washington, and I’m extremely happy to be home. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot of genealogy I could get done during the move, although we did visit a few cemeteries along the way and I did get the chance to talk to family members about our family. As soon [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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? [...]
As much I feel guilty about using a premade theme, I haven’t the time to make one of my own just yet. Now, I could have waited until after the move and after we unpack and everything, but the temptation was just too great. Not to mention, on top of that, there will be genealogy [...]
