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Genealogy Basics: Birth Certificates

Posted on October 7, 2013July 31, 2014 By Danni

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…

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This Ain’t Your Grandparents’ Genealogy

Posted on September 23, 2013July 31, 2014 By Danni 4 Comments on This Ain’t Your Grandparents’ Genealogy

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…

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My Brick Wall: Sarah Ann (Craig) McKee

Posted on September 16, 2013July 31, 2014 By Danni 2 Comments on My Brick Wall: Sarah Ann (Craig) McKee

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)…

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Ah Those Genealogy Tangents

Posted on September 9, 2013May 21, 2015 By Danni

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…

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Talking Tech: Family tree apps for the iPad – LiveHistory

Posted on August 19, 2013May 21, 2015 By Danni 2 Comments on Talking Tech: Family tree apps for the iPad – LiveHistory

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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