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| Blog Name: | DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog |
| Url: | http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | family, genealogy, ancestry |
| Description: | Practical, down-to-earth advice for family historians. |
| Popularity: | 312 Followers |
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Are digital images only for LDS?
DearREADERS,Thanks to our friend AI (Ancestry Insider) for a detailed description of New FamilySearch, FamilySearch Indexing and the digitization project currently underway by our friends at FamilySearch.org. See Digitized Records Not Just for Mormons published 23 Nov 2009 at the Ancestry Insider blog.Your readers have come to trust your advice and instruction. Just add Ol' Myrt to your list of loyal followers.Happy family tree climbing!Myrt :)DearMYRTLE,
DearREADERS,Thanks to our friend AI (Ancestry Insider) for a detailed description of New FamilySearch, FamilySearch Indexing and the digitization project currently underway by our friends at FamilySearch.org. See Digitized Records Not Just for Mormons published 23 Nov 2009 at the Ancestry Insider blog.Your readers have come to trust your advice and instruction. Just add Ol' Myrt to your list of loyal followers.Happy family tree climbing!Myrt :)DearMYRTLE,
Case Study: Frances I (Goering) Froman McDonnell
DearREADERS,To flesh out the concepts introduced in Building a Case, we'll first use this scanned image from my maternal grandmother's funeral card.Funeral cards are often the first family-held document encountered by beginning genealogists. From this we can
DearREADERS,To flesh out the concepts introduced in Building a Case, we'll first use this scanned image from my maternal grandmother's funeral card.Funeral cards are often the first family-held document encountered by beginning genealogists. From this we can
Builing a case
DearREADERS,Working with beginning researchers of late, it occurs to Ol' Myrt here that a review of the genealogical research process is in order. Seldom do we take the time to explain just how we arrive at a particular assumption about an ancestor.Just when do we actually type something into a data field in our genealogy management program? As we unearth additional documents mentioning our ancestrors, what do we do about conflicting evidence?Disparate - (adj) Distinct in kind, essentially differe
DearREADERS,Working with beginning researchers of late, it occurs to Ol' Myrt here that a review of the genealogical research process is in order. Seldom do we take the time to explain just how we arrive at a particular assumption about an ancestor.Just when do we actually type something into a data field in our genealogy management program? As we unearth additional documents mentioning our ancestrors, what do we do about conflicting evidence?Disparate - (adj) Distinct in kind, essentially differe
READERS' FEEDBACK: Docu-Challenge #1
Pictured above: 2801 Perkins Lane, Seattle, Washington. Image from http://maps.Google.com .
Pictured above: 2801 Perkins Lane, Seattle, Washington. Image from http://maps.Google.com .
Docu-Challenge #1
DearREADERS,If you ran across this document in your family history research:How would you describe it? What can you tell about Ol' Myrt (yes, this is ME at age 3!) from the information provided?What is missing?Which additional records might this lead you to review?Wri
DearREADERS,If you ran across this document in your family history research:How would you describe it? What can you tell about Ol' Myrt (yes, this is ME at age 3!) from the information provided?What is missing?Which additional records might this lead you to review?Wri
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