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Here’s a quick post regarding Loretta Gillespie’s blog, this time about Ancestry.com. Are you a subscriber? I have been a “faithful” customer for over 10 years. Lately, they’re a little more difficult to keep track of. For example, their newest membership packages are a little confusing. We discussed it today on a Google Hangout (which all…
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Ancestry Health? Yes, Ancestry Health This is a little bit disturbing in my opinion. Maybe even creepy. But Ancestry.com is diving into the health data field which, on the surface, sounds a bit like what the FDA prevented 23andMe from doing, at least in its original form. But that’s another story!I refer everyone to the…
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We’re all talking about NERGC here in the North East. NERGC? So what’s NERGC? It’s the acronym for the New England Regional Genealogical Consortium. NERGC orchestrates a biennial conference at strategic cities here in New England. Now it’s not RootsTech..nowhere near the size. I believe RT had approximately 30,000 registrants this year, give or…
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Here’s a short hint regarding a search I was having some difficulty with. The family name is “LISIEWISCZ” which, as I’m sure you can imagine, has a wide variety of spelling possibilities. After all, “speeiln duzn’t cownt” right? So the point of the search was to find the obituary for a 1932 death. The obituary…
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I’ll readily admit that I have not been a regular user of Heritage Quest. As a matter of fact, I would avoid it. Probably because I didn’t know how best to take advantage of it. When I did go there, it was usually at the library where I volunteer and occasionally teach or lecture on…
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Today I want to share with you a blog, “The Legal Genealogist” by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL who writes an amazing amount of information, all of which is useful and interesting to genealogists. She is a lawyer, but speaks and writes in English, not “lawyer” so she’s easy to understand. She is also…
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Today nearly got away from me without my recognition of a very special birthday. I’ll give you a hint: He was born 342 years ago today (Julian Calendar!). John Howland was a Mayflower passenger who nearly didn’t make it! There’s a well-documented, elaborate story detailing the events. Suffice it to say that he had had…
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Genealogy Road Show has a lot going for it. They are able to cover many more family stories in a single episode than WDYTYA (either US or UK) and Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Not that the others aren’t worth watching. Quite the contrary. I enjoy the stories and I enjoy hearing how…
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If I’ve ever prepared for a monthly meeting of WMGS, it’s this month’s meeting. It will be our 4th virtual meeting, each with an increasing level of technology and the resultant learning curve. We’ve had some high profile guests in virtual environments over the past year interspersed with local genealogists. For example, Maureen Taylor, the…
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This is getting a little frustrating! I’ve put up…or tried to put up…a few new posts. Then POOF! They’re gone and I can’t find them. And WordPress can’t find them! But, I’m going to just soldier on and hope for the best. Lots of interesting things are going on. That was the inspiration to post…
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