I just returned from a trip to visit my family in Dallas. Since I last visited my parents, they moved, and in their move they discovered boxes upon boxes of pictures that they had forgotten about. Most of these pictures were of our immediate family members, but there were quite a few of grandparents, cousins, [...]

We live in a marvelous age where information from all around the world is available to us with the click of a mouse. Have you ever wondered how genealogists keep up with all the new databases and technologies that are available? One of the keys lies in three little letters: RSS.
RSS stands for Really Simple [...]

Inspired by her love of genealogy, retired librarian, Mollie, began to develop a searchable website for free online books nearly three years ago.  After gathering nearly 5,000 links she very generously put it on the web in December 2007, entitled Genealogy Book Links. Since that time it has grown to contain nearly 20,000 titles with 7,500 in the [...]

As a teenager, I spent a lot of time with my church youth group. We liked to do service projects, but we often had a hard time organizing projects that were useful, engaging and could be done in a few hours with lots of people. One of my favorite service projects involved our group cleaning [...]

I am not one of those fortunate people who has located diaries or letters written by my ancestors. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve found lots of good resources on some of my ancestors, like really colorful newspaper articles. But so far I haven’t identified any journals or personal histories. As I’ve lamented this fact over [...]

The other day as I was perusing deed indexes for some family names, I began to think about all the hours that had been spent indexing those deeds. I thought about the tedious work someone had done going through those deeds page by page trying to carefully note the names of the parties involved along [...]

Family Tree Magazine has just released their annual list of “101 Best Websites” for 2010 with a bit of a twist. Having published ten such lists over the past decade, the magazine’s editors always provide interesting selections, often with some theme. This year they decided to dispense with references to subscription sites as a nod [...]

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Last week I noticed that some records I used to be able to access on the FamilySearch Record Search website were no longer available. There was a note that stated they might be available through FamilySearch Beta.  Today I discovered how to access the images on FamilySearch Beta. I am not sure why certain collections [...]

I found a great new iPad application! It allows you to connect with your home or work computer and run that computer and all its programs remotely. Isn’t that cool? iTeleport is really easy to set up and there are step-by-step instructions and videos. The iPad becomes a true business tool with this awesome app.
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