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How to Do Church Record Research For Your Family Genealogy

January 15, 2011
By Guest
How to Do Church Record Research For Your Family Genealogy

For beginning genealogists it can be hard to figure out where or why to search church records. Not all churches kept good records, and some kept none. But the information you can find could be priceless. You can find parent's names, locations of where families lived, denominations, witness names and more. Learn why in...
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Using Google News Timeline for Genealogy & Family History

March 22, 2010
By C. Hogan

Genealogy Gems shows another handy tool you can use in researching your Genealogy and Family History online using Google News. Have you used this tool? What interesting things did you find out about your family? Share
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Save Your Eyes.. Use the Google Toolbar in Your Genealogy Research

March 20, 2010
By C. Hogan

Robert the “Genealogy Guy” from Treasure Maps Genealogy does a really great job explaining how to use the Google Toolbar to save your eyes when researching your family history online. I have been using the tool for a long time and I am very grateful he did a video on this.. it just never...
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List of 300 Places to Start or Continue Your Family Research

October 27, 2009
By C. Hogan
List of 300 Places to Start or Continue Your Family Research

One of the things I always look forward to is my Ancestry Magazine that comes every other month.  While I consider it something that I do in my leisure, it always seems to spur on my imagination for new places that I have not looked for missing ancestors. Executive Editor Loretto (Lou) Dennis Sucs ...
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Hiring A Professional Genealogist Abroad To Conduct Your Family History Research

May 2, 2009
By C. Hogan

For most people living in the US who are looking to trace their family history, most long lost relatives of recent years can be found in United States repositories.  However, what happens when you discover the country your ancestors originally immigrated from? Since the advent of the internet, there are quite a large amount...
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Genealogy: Website Aspires to Help Decipher Handwriting

September 21, 2008
By C. Hogan

By Tamie Dehler Special to the Tribune-Star All genealogists are challenged to some degree when they have to read and interpret documents in original handwriting. And the further back in time the handwriting sample is, the greater the challenge, until our own language looks foreign to us. A Web site aimed at scholars and...
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Stephen P. Morse – One Step Genealogical Search

September 17, 2008
By C. Hogan

Often times when searching genealogical records from any given “large” database site it can be easy to get lost or not find what you KNOW should be there because of the search tools that are provided to search the site. Stephen Morse has an incredible site he calls “A One Step Portal for On-Line...
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The 5 Most Useful Operands to Use in Google to Refine Your Genealogy Searches

August 11, 2008
By C. Hogan

The Google search engine was launched in 1999 and since then they have refined it in such a way that you can narrow neraly any kind of search possible using common symbols called operands. Genealogists figured this out quickly and for many this is the first place they begin researching because it can give...
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