Videos are available from the Institute for Genetic Genealogy’s International Genetic Genealogy Conference held August 15, 16 and 17, 2014, in Washington D.C. Attendees were emailed links to access all the presentations online, but you can purchase access to the entire package of 27 presentations for $50 and individual videos for $4. The organizers have stated
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How Our Ancestors Became Americans, Or Not–A Workshop
Your ancestor steps off the ship at Ellis Island. What happens next in the process of becoming a citizen of the United States? On Saturday afternoon, 5 Apr 2014, 1 to 4 pm, at Western Reserve Historical Society, I will present a two-part workshop discussing the process of naturalization and the records it produced, as well
Read on »Ancestor’s Life Recorded in Newspapers
Nelson Dinghman (b 1818-d 1907) was my great great grandfather. When I was growing up, I never heard a word about him, even though he had lived only about 15 miles from my childhood home in Andover, Ohio. Early on in my involvement in genealogy, I looked for information about Nelson and learned that he
Read on »Workshop: “Create a Free Family Tree in FamilySearch”
On January 4, 2014, the Genealogical Committee of the Western Reserve Historical Society will present a hands-on workshop, in which you will learn how to use the website FamilySearch.org to create a free, sharable family tree, print out family group sheets and ancestor charts, and use the microfilm collection of the Family History Library in
Read on »WRHS Spring Seminar: Thomas Jones on Establishing Genealogical Proof
Most of us have an ancestor who, for various reasons, is difficult to “prove.” Such a case can be about a person for whom key records are missing or were never created, or it may involve several people in the same locality with identical names and similar ages. At one time, genealogists borrowed the concept
Read on »Want To Be On Genealogy Roadshow? Here’s First Step
We don’t know how the first season of Genealogy Roadshow (GR) was put together. If you watched the inaugural season on your local PBS station, you know that four cities were featured–Nashville, Detroit, San Francisco, and Austin, TX–and subjects came to a historic landmark building in each city to be presented with genealogical research results
Read on »How-to-Do-It Info Posted in Blog from Ancestry.com
I have been subscribed for some time to the Ancestry.com Blog, but I must admit that I haven’t studied the content in any detail. Going forward, I will be paying more attention to the content, because it is really valuable. For example, in the 17 Oct 2013 posting, the blog provides a discussion of The
Read on »Making Your Genealogical Research More Efficient with Evernote
Evernote is a free, note-taking/capturing technology useful for collecting results during your research, whether online or on location. It also helps you organize what you have collected. In a nutshell, Evernote is designed specifically to capture or record quickly what you are finding, and thus speed up your research and make it more efficient. Then,
Read on »Where’s Otto? The Final Chapter
One year ago, I started on a journey to track down the family of my uncle by marriage, Frank Nikkari. When I started, I only had his obituary and his social security application card (I had purchased it back in the day, when it cost only $7). But there was the Internet, and Ancestry.com, and
Read on »The German Research Companion
I have acquired a useful book on genealogical research for my personal library: The German Research Companion, by Shirley J. Reimer, Roger P. Minert, and Jennifer A. Anderson. This third edition, published by Lorelei Press, contains 706 pages, and includes basic and advanced material about doing research on German ancestors both in the United States
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