Don’t overlook Ancestry City Directories in your research! Here’s how to mine the often mundane data in them like a pro genealogist! Squeezing every last drop of information out of City Directories can be tedious for sure; however, you can make major breakthroughs with what I will show you. Ancestry City Directories are like the
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I wanted to share a GENEALOGY tip that I recently discovered. I found the mother lode of free Declaration of Intention and Petition for Naturalization (also in some cases Certificates of Arrival) scans on Family Search! These particular records are for New Haven, Connecticut for the years 1906 – 1945; however, the method I discovered
“Home is where the heart is.” Not many sayings are truer than that! The keys to truly understanding the true meaning of that proverb are the words home and heart. What emotions and memories do those words stimulate within you? For me home is my sanctuary. Home is the place where I can shut the
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Stuck trying to figure out how to find Maiden Names in genealogy? Well, let me show you how! In honor of all of our mothers I wanted to share some of my ideas on the importance of our maternal lines and how to find those often difficult maiden names. You can read my story and
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Learn to master genealogy research online like the professionals do. This is a beginner’s article designed to help you start organizing, strategizing, and masterminding your genealogy research. In this article I’m going to share with you my Source Hound Beginner’s Guide to Professional Genealogy Research Online. In this post I am focusing exclusively on genealogy
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