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Tracing Female Ancestors Through A Child’s Records
Tracking down our female ancestors requires thinking “outside the box”. Always focusing on her may not yield the desired results. By taking our focus off of our female ancestor, we can be sure of exhausting all possibilities of finding her in the records. We’ve discussed shifting our focus to your elusive female ancestor’s children in a previous post. [Go ahead and click over to read it. I’ll wait.] Now that you are convinced of the need to shift your focus off of the female ancestor you are researching, let’s take a closer look at this in action. Tracing Female Ancestors Through A Child’s Records We are starting with John White…
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Searching For Irish Genealogy Records – Where Do You Start?
Searching for Irish genealogy records can be daunting, but is worth the effort! Learn how to start finding your Irish ancestors! Searching for Irish ancestors is tough, or at least, it can be! I discovered my one Irish ancestor – my great-great-great grandmother Joanna Barrett. She is one of the first brick walls I came across, and unfortunately, that wall stands firm. I have not been able to advance this line back further. One day…… Why are Irish ancestors hard to research? Researching Irish ancestors is a bit of a sub-specialty in genealogy. Like genealogy research in most areas, it presents with its own unique challenges. A few reasons can…
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Researching English Ancestors – Let’s Get Started
This post contain affiliate links. Read my full disclosure policy here. Are you struggling to begin researching English ancestors? Your earlier research indicated your ancestors came to America from England, but where do you start? Many American genealogy researchers look forward to – and dread – being able to “jump the pond” to in their genealogy research of English. Maybe you already have. Was your experience like mine? My Talbot(t) family research landed me squarely on English soil, and I had NO IDEA what to do next. Really. I had not an idea how to proceed. See, you are probably like me. When you research ancestors on American soil, you…
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How To Organize Genealogy Research On The Go
Researching genealogy often begins online, but you do not have to get too far into your research to realize an important aspect of genealogy research: Often records you need to to break through a brick wall or simply progress to the next generation back are not online. That means ….time for a genealogy road trip! How To Organize Genealogy Research On The Go One of the most important parts of organizing your genealogy research trip is what you do BEFORE you leave home. Your preparation is the most important factors in whether your research trip is successful or not. Sometimes travel to a needed repository is not feasible. I understand…