Helping the present understand the past
Last week we talked a little bit about genealogy basics and how to get started. In that post I touched on some different records available for genealogical use. The next few posts are going to discuss what those records are and what information can be extracted from them. The first records we talked about were…
Growing up I can remember my grandparents spending hours sitting in front of the microfilm or microfiche readers at the Family History Center in Independence. I would watch them scroll from page to page. Occasionally they would even write something down. For the longest time I wondered what they were doing sitting in front of…
A brick wall. Every genealogist has one at one time or another. My genealogy is no different. With Constitution Day being this week (September 17 to be exact) my thoughts have been centering on my brick wall. You see, the Daughters of the American Revolution work very hard to celebrate Constitution Week (for obvious reasons)…
I typically spend my weekends as most others do: running errands, working around the house, watching a little t.v. and other mundane tasks that never seem to get done during the week. But I also allot a bit of time to indulge in things that I enjoy doing and might otherwise get pushed to the…
Continuing my series on family tree apps for iGadgets, this week I’m reviewing LiveHistory. If you’re just tuning in, I’ve previously reviewed GedView and Heredis. LiveHistory LiveHistory is still considered a fairly young app. I can’t recall where I learned about LiveHistory at, maybe FaceBook, maybe a blog post on another blog, but they were…
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