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It’s been a tremendous last few months here at RootsMagic. We’ve been busy with the new releases of Personal Historian 2 and RootsMagic 5. We're also excited to participate in one of the largest genealogy events in North America- RootsTech!
We want to celebrate these momentous events with you, our loyal users! And what better way to celebrate than with a treasure hunt where you could win one of many prizes including an iPad 2!
Online Treasure Hunt
We've partnered with 15 of the best and brightest g
RootsTech Conference Will Broadcast Select Sessions Free Online
SALT LAKE CITY—RootsTech, a leading family history and technology conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2-4, 2012, announced today that fourteen of its popular sessions will be broadcasted live and complimentary over the Internet. The live broadcasts will give those unable to attend worldwide a sample of this year’s conference content. Interested viewers can watch the live presentations at RootsTech.org. The second-year c
Ancestry.com Partners with Historical Society of Pennsylvania to Bring the State’s Rich History Online
Family History Leader Adds Millions of State Birth, Marriage and Death Records to its Pennsylvania Vital Record Collection
PROVO, UTAH – (January 26, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, announced today that it has added over seven million records detailing more than 300 years of Pennsylvanians’ life history spanning from 1593-1908 to its already expansive c
One of my blog readers recently wrote asking me about the best way to share photos with family members who are far away. She was interested in having family members help her identify people in her photos but was hesitant to put the photos in the mail, fearing they may not be returned. This is a pretty important thing to be fearful of and many of my clients have reported losing photos to well-meaning family members. My grandmother was notorious in our family for coming over while we were out of t
Noted Genealogy Speakers, Gene Philabert Ortega and Joel Weintraub will be the featured speakers at the HSJGS annual Seminar to be held Saturday 11 Feb 2012 at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham, Hemet, CA. The 1940 Census will be one of the Interesting Subjects discussed. Click on the URL to see the brochure.
Call the Duffin Heritage Room at the HPL, 951-765-2372 for further information, or log on to www.hsjgs.org The official web site for the HSJGS, where yo
Genealogy Chat
Today I logged on and found many of my old friends and distant kin right here in this chat program on GenealogyWise.
It was fun for we shared links and data and names. We find we have new names we can compare. Of course we have not chatted in a few years so our lines now go back farther. Be interesting to see if some of the newer names find we are linked distantly also.
Some of the urls shared by cousins of old this morning were:
Hello Fellow Genealogy Enthusiasts,
I am trying to gather statistics for a business class I'm taking and have put together a survey about a service oriented to people interested in genealogy. The survey is completely anonymous and does not capture names OR e-mail addresses. I am the only person who sees the answers and will analyze them for my project. The more people I can get to answer the survey, the better my statistical analysis will be.
I am a genealogy nut who lives in Connecticut. I am
Hello Everyone! I am new today to this website. I am looking for anyone out there researching the surname Burnup. I have many relatives that were in Ontario, Canada and upstate New York that have been traced back to London, England in late 1780's. I am at a roadblock here and feel that only through others may I go back any further in y family history. Great project for the cold gloomy winter months here in Michigan!
Part 2 of a series about capturing the joy of family events on video
Last week I introduced this series about creating videos to capture the joy of family events and special occasions like weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and holiday get-togethers. Now let’s delve a bit deep into the process by discussing the first of four main phases used in multimedia productions – concepting / script writing.
First, try to develop a concept that really captures the spirit and central theme of the event and ca
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I would love to say that this post is an original idea, but that isn't true. It was inspired by a blog at Quora.com.
Chris Wake wrote a very effective post on the subject, which you can read here. I've only adapted these great points to apply to genealogists.
1. Consuming more than you create -
An ineffective genealogist copies other people's family trees, research, and documents. They take without giving in return.
Effective genealogists provides new and original r
Cemeteries--09.jpg, a photo by Randall Dickerson on Flickr.Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. This cross is about 10 to 12 feet tall. I love the way the tree seems to shelter/embrace the cross.
Copyright 2010 Randall Dickerson
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OK folks, here's the first update for my New Year's Resolution Concepts.
Resolution Concepts 1. Do less.
Pretty easy one here, since I haven't posted a blog in several days! (grin) And my twitter-time is reduced by choice as well. This is because of high-priority items.
2. Do more.
I'm on the 2nd full draft of a 56 page technical report for my employer. The report was overdue, but by placing it 1st on the stack and reducing time on othe
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4. Heirlooms
Sorry I hadn't replied to the January 2011 post; notification must have come in while I was out of state burying Mom.
As to Mr. Sheldon, yes, I have concluded Johnson Dobkins has to belong to Evan & Margaret-his first name is a dead giveaway, at any rate. Plus the fact that no one else claims him. We have the same problem with Eleanor Dobkins that married William Brickey-no one claims her; and it is my theory that she and Thomas Dobkins who married Mary Compton Brickey McAdams also belong to E
Give us our freedom.
I had DNA testing through 23andMe and my roots were traced back to Yoruba. I believe my ancestrors were sent to Barbados and later to the states. The earliest grandmother I can trace to went by the surname GIST from Union SC. Can anyone help me or give me suggestions on how I can trace my roots?
Part 1 – Overview (This will be part 1 of a 5 part series)
Okay, admit it. What do you normally think when someone announces, “It’s time to show Home Movies”? You mentally roll your eyes while giving them a blank stare or at best, a forced smile don’t you? That’s because most home movies are dreadfully boring affairs with no audience appeal outside the immediate family. The joy of these events is often lost in the transition from live experiences to the screen. Well, it doesn’t have to be that wa
