As we learn about researching our family tree, roots, and genealogy, we’d like to share a few tips, tricks, and techniques we’ve learned and discovered along the way to help you with your family history research.
In a fascinating discussion on soc.genealogy.computing’s mailing list, the issue of how religion is represented in GEDCOM 5.5’s RELI token. The question was whether or not there was a standardized value or list to use to represent the religion.
The example in the original question gave a possible example which explains the confusion over the taxonomy:
How [...]
Boston 1775 offers “Washington’s Hanukkah: An Oral Tradition”, researching the historical evidence of General George Washington learning about Jewish traditions.
In his recent picture book Hanukkah at Valley Forge, Stephen Krensky gives a main source for his story of Gen. George Washington learning about that Jewish festival, and that book in turn cites as its main [...]
According to The Globe and Mail Technology, the hottest trend in online social networking is genealogy, but not genealogy as you might imagine. This is a far cry from your family history blog.
Rather than exchanging photos, music and cellphone numbers, as many of the 100 million members of MySpace.com do, participants in Ms. Wong’s online [...]
The Society of Genealogists in the UK has finally added a feed to their website. They join a growing rank of family history, genealogical societies, clubs, groups, and services finally getting onto the feed band wagon.
Some of the most valuable online resources to history researchers still do not offer feeds, such as the US National [...]
In Columbus Colonists’ Despair Revealed (print version) from Discovery News, it appears to be confirmed that Columbus faked the wealth of his discovery of the new world.
The first silver ever extracted from coarser materials by Europeans in the New World appears to have been a desperate, last ditch effort involving not American, but Spanish metals, [...]
The New England Historic Genealogical Society’s Dr. Edwin Knights offers “Confronted With Cancer”, a great look into using your family tree to trace cancer in your family.
Is there cancer in you family’s medical pedigree? And if so, how are you going to find it? From death certificates? Obituaries? Perhaps they will help, but death certificates [...]
Tips from the Pros: Date Estimates-More Than a Good Guess from Ancestry.com offers some great information on how to estimate your ancestors’ dates.
Most online database websites provide a field for selecting the date range of a search, or the age range of an individual in a particular record. An age range is, in fact, a [...]
What Was Under Those White Wigs asks the Boston 1775 blog. Written by historian and expert, J.L. Bell, Boston 1775 is dedicated to the 17th and 18th century in the United States.
As part of my exploration of the 1700s and 1800s, trying to learn more about the lifestyle of my family in the United States [...]
Do you know these people? Do you recognize them? These are some lost family and friends we are trying to identify, so check out our Do You Know These People lost and found section to help us identify these people.
