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  • Genealogy for Beginners: Land Records

    Everyone hits a brick wall in genealogy, where the birth and death records just aren’t easy to find. In that case, try some different records. One good source you may try:  historic land records. Deeds often contain information on who sold what to whom; who inherited what from whom; or how some land was divided among a family.  Historic [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: Using search engines

    As I point out in my book, Genealogy Online 8th Edition, you can do a lot of good research using search engines and Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR, and parentheses.) Recently, Yahoo! has stopped supporting the operators NOT and AND, although the plus or minus sign in front of a term still work.
    The NOT is [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: Cousins

    Most beginners to genealogy are fuzzy about cousinship. For example, while many understand first cousins are people with common grandparents, many folks confuse first cousin once removed and second cousin.
    Then, there are families like mine: My mother’s siblings were born from 1911 to 1932. That means her youngest brother “Mike” went to school with the [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: Take a Genealogy Course!

    It’s back to school time, and maybe you’re thinking you need to know more about genealogy techniques and methods. One way to learn about genealogy is to take an online  course. Here are a few suggestions to get you started: Introduction to Genealogy from National Genealogical Society (U.S.) Most genealogists take this course first. It [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: Ways to display your genealogy

    Modern genealogy programs all have a way to output your data to paper, at least  by GEDCOM. Some common output forms are:
    Ahnentafel :  a numeric list with all male ancestors assigned odd numbers and all female ancestors assigned even numbers.
    Pedigree Charts: using the same numbering system as above, this is the familiar branching chart. It [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: Start with what you know

    In my book,Genealogy Online 8th Edition, the first chapter is about how to begin your genealogy project. For a detailed description, read my book ;D. But here is a short version of how to get started.
    To begin your genealogy, begin with yourself.  Collect the information that you know for certain about yourself, your spouse, and [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: French Genealogy Sources

    Eight years ago I was touring France  with a group of 30 students (including my two children), three teachers and about 5 other adults. We learned so much about records and history in France! If you have some French genealogy, you might want to check out these sites:

    Footnote has some documents related to the Bastille
    This [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: Beware of Scams

    Scams in genealogy are as old as the hobby itself. Many of the time honored ones (which I’ll cover in a minute) have moved from junk mail and classified ads to online. Others are brand new, taking advantage of the fact that on the Internet, no one knows if you’re a skunk. Here are a [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: Publishing your genealogy webwise

    One way to share what data you have and note what data you need is to post your genealogy on the web. Before you do that, however, please read the Guidelines For Publishing Web Pages On The Internet. This document sets out the best ways to make your page findable and useable by other genealogists.
    How [...]

  • Genealogy for Beginners: WorldGenWeb

    Happy First Day of Summer!

    I’ll start off this week’s blog with an announcement: I have wrestled with the Internet (or at least my ISP’s portion) and won. My daily blog is now at Blog.EPCrowe.com! If you subscribed before this, you need to update your links. Go to the blog, scroll down on the left and [...]

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