Celebrate Family History Month!!!
October is Family History Month and I am celebrating here at Are You My Cousin?. Would you like to join in the celebration? Join me and my fabulous fellow genealogists in celebrating….and we have PRIZES! Every week in October we are hosting a giveaway including a GRAND prize on October 31st. Click here to find the giveaway. Giveaway now CLOSED. [Don’t miss the opportunity to earn extra entries.]
Is Your Ancestor In The Often Overlooked Non-Population Schedules of 1850-1880?
This post contain affiliate links. Read my full disclosure policy here. Let’s jump outside of the genealogy box again and explore non-population schedules. You know the ones? Those census schedukes taken beside the “regular census” in 1850-1880 collecting a variety of additional information. In the 1880 census, my GGG grandmother Panthea Overby Elliott is listed as “insane”. The Elliott family includes her husband Elias Elliott, 7 children, and a housekeeper. The youngest child was just 1 year old. Panthea…..insane?! Hmm….. could I learn more about her and what this “insane” designation meant for her? Yes. Yes, I can! For this part of my research, I needed to explore the Non-Population…
Genealogy Tips From NGS 2017 Family History Conference – Part 2
Day 3 of the NGS 2017 Family History Conference and I have switched to my running shoes! (Read that as comfy shoes.) That just means I am making tracks to see and talk to as many genealogy folks as I can. Roller skates might be helpful….. More Genealogy Tips and Gleanings…….. This is a hodgepodge of tips thoughts, and impressions of the conference so far. Research How To Research. This is a theme I am hearing woven throughout lectures and conversations each day. Essentially, before you dive into researching an ancestor, learn what records exist for their time and place. Learn the culture of the time. Otherwise you could…
Genealogy Gleanings From NGS 2017 Family History Conference – Part 1
{This post contains affiliate links. See full disclosure here.} Do you attend genealogy conferences? Big ones or small ones? You know the best part thing about attending a genealogy conference? Talking genealogy all day without seeing any eyes glaze over! 🙂 A lot of genealogy talk is happening at the NGS 2017 Family History Conference. I’m sharing some “genealogy gleanings” and thoughts from Day 1 of the conference in the video below. Just so you know……that’s a real North Carolinian accent! (In case you missed it, I’m officially part of the conference social media team. ) Links mentioned in the video MyHeritage DNA AncestryDNA FamilyTreeDNA Genetic Genealogy in Practice…
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