Considering DNA Testing?
With St. Patrick’s Day being tomorrow, maybe you have been wondering lately if you could be Irish? Maybe you have been considering doing...
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Daylight Savings Time
With yesterday's time change, I thought today would be an appropriate opportunity to discuss some of the lesser known worldwide...
Happy Mother’s Day to UK Mums
Happy Mother’s Day today to all the mums in the the UK today! Hope you have a wonderful, relaxing, enjoyable day. Do you have relative...
Today in History
On this day in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first radio address to the nation, which were later termed fireside...
Happy International Women's Day
International Women's Day (IWD), a worldwide holiday, annually celebrated March 8, has its earliest origins reaching back to February 28,...
WHAT IS GENEALOGY? Part Two
The Board for Certification of Genealogist (BCG) has a different definition, that takes more into account when considering, what...
WHAT IS GENEALOGY? Part One
Genealogy is so very many things, especially to different people. However, for those who may just beginning their journey or are curious...
Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month, check out https://womenshistorymonth.gov, for various forms of media from the Library of Congress, the...
Crazy Fun History
Today's blog post has been inspired by a neat booklet found with my maternal grandmother's photographs. The booklet is about the ski...
My Heritage’s New Deep Nostalgia Feature
How can I not write a post about the new feature created by My Heritage, where they animate your photographs. Here is an example using...
Phillis Wheatley
Today I would like to discuss writer, Phillis Wheatley. Hopefully, many of you will already know who this woman is. "Phillis Wheatley /...
Time Capsule
I guess my post from yesterday has me feeling nostalgic. Today, I suggest creating a time capsule. Create a glimpse into life today with...
Preserving History
Have you kept anything for future generations to remember about what we are experiencing during COVID-19? I know I am, to help my young...
Roots Tech in Two Days!
Anyone else attending Roots Tech? I have been, not so patiently waiting, for months. If one good thing has come out of COVID, it is a...
Today in History
On 22 February 1847, began the Battle of Buena Vista of the Mexican-American War.[1] The Mexican forces, led by General Santa Anna,...
Flash Back Friday
On February 19, 1878 an American inventor, Thomas Edison, patented an invention named the phonograph. Could your family tree have a...
Research Like a Pro
Want to start researching your family, but do not know where to start? You have been researching you family for years and have hit a...
What started your genealogy journey?
Thanks to the extreme insightfulness of my wonderful husband, he suggested I open an Ancestry.com account more than ten years ago. He...
Happy Presidents’ Day
In honor of Presidents’ Day today, I decided to go back to the beginning; the origin of the holiday being in the 1880s to honor the...
Genealogy Questionnaire
Here is a questionnaire that I have compiled. You can feel free to use when doing your own genealogy research, for interviewing...
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