One of my favorite client requests is to create a family history book. It is fun to look past the dates and places and search for the stories that make the people come to life. Everyone wants to have a family history on their family, but the project is often too daunting a task to […]
Almost all of us have old photographs sitting somewhere in our house – in a box, in the attic, in a dresser. For years, my mother kept photographs from her great-grandmother’s family in an old hamper. Photographs are often stored in less than perfect settings. Although very few of us have the equipment or time to […]
My parents recently moved into a charming house that was built in the 1700s. The previous owners told my parents that the house was built by a town local to be a tavern. That was all of the information they were given about the history of the house. As genealogists, we spend most of our […]
This last week I had my reminder to back everything up. My main computer is a laptop and has worked great without any problems for three years. Last week the motherboard blew. The computer is completely dead and I can’t even turn it on. Thankfully I had everything backed up in the cloud. Whenever I […]
As genealogists and family historians there is always the question in the back our minds thinking, how will I cite this source? There are many different citation methods out there but many of them do not give guidelines for the same original records we look at. We are all taught to cite the records so […]
Have you ever played the children’s game “Telephone?” It is played by a large group of people. The first person whispers a phrase into the ear of a second person, who whispers it to a third person, and so on. The last person then speaks the phrase out loud. Invariably, after twenty or thirty people, […]
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” -Napoleon Hill FALL 2007, PROVO, UTAH I though I was going to go crazy. What else could I do? My research was almost complete. I had […]
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS / SOMEWHERE IN CYBERSPACE He had settled new frontiers, built groups of settlers, and led nighttime hunts to control marauding bears that were ravaging the community. Was Ephraim Towner really unable to stay up on a family tree? To make it worse, I felt an acute sense of déjà vu. Could this actually […]
How many languages and cultures can a person deal with at once? Well, strictly speaking, not in the same one instant. But with the research cases that I had open and was working on simultaneously, they might as well be. A mix of clients with English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish immigrant roots needed work done […]
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