Category Archives: Tricks for Ancestry

From Mountains to Megabytes: Organizing and Archiving Your Stuff: Pictures and Stories RootsTech Session 2019

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Blog Admin

Where do you start with your family tree research and organizing a massive amount of family history? This is a great session from RootsTech – about an hour of very helpful information! Continue reading →

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RootsTech 2021 – Free Online! February 25-27, 2021

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Blog Admin

Tens of thousands of people attend RootsTech every year and this year you can to! Continue reading →

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Tracing African-American Enslaved Peoples & Families: 10 Free books to get you started

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Blog Admin

Tracing African-American enslaved people in your family tree can be more difficult at times. Here is a Free book list of helpful resources from the Internet Archive. Continue reading →

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Starting an Ancestry Family Tree – Part 2 – Exploring Features

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Blog Admin

Part 2 of the video tutorial series of starting a new family tree. This video covers the next steps in setting up a new tree and helps you explore the features you will use. This video is about 15 minutes. Continue reading →

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Ancestry Mistakes; Why you need to STOP! randomly e-mailing cousins…today.

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Blog Admin

Ancestry Mistakes; Why you need to STOP! randomly emailing cousins….today. 3 Tips to Improve Communication on Ancestry Continue reading →

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