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    Genealogy Tips for Cemetery Research – 6 Photos To Take Before You Leave the Cemetery

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      Enjoy genealogy success with these tips for cemetery research. Learn what photos you MUST take before leaving the cemetery! As I write this article, fall has finally arrived here in North Carolina. It’s such a nice break from the summer heat and humidity.  There is another reason I love fall…… It’s a great time of year to perform my on-site cemetery research!  Yes, my family thinks I’m a bit strange, but you, my fellow genealogy researchers, understand. 🙂 While travel is still rather restricted or limited, I didn’t let that stop me from getting outside on a recent weekend. I created my own heritage travel day all within about…

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    15 Places to Find the Genealogy Records You Need

    March 31, 2016
    Using PicMonkey to edit images of historical documents used in genealogy research and make them easier to read and analyze. The document can be cropped, highlighted, sharpened, enlarged....Many possibilities exist to make your document more easily read.

    How Picmonkey Will Aide Your Genealogy Research

    October 1, 2016
    Attending a genealogy conference - big or small- is a great way to further your genealogy education. As you learn new strategies you will sharpen your research skills and make steady progress toward tearing down your genealogical brick walls.

    How To Find Your Next Genealogy Conference (Answering a Reader’s Question!)

    May 29, 2017
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    Genealogy Gift Guides,  Heritage Travel

    The Perfect Family History Gifts For the Genealogy Lover

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      Family history gifts genealogy researchers really want! Thrill family with these unique heritage gift ideas. Your one-stop gift guide. Gift shopping can be difficult. Do you ever feel like you have run out of gift giving ideas just when the holidays or a birthday roll around? It’s okay, I do, too! If you have a family historian or genealogy enthusiast on your gift shopping list, I’ve got the perfect family history gift suggestions to jump start you shopping.  Actually, I think you’ll like the list so much, you will find yourself shopping for yourself! Don’t worry, I won’t tell! The family history gift ideas below are great for any…

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    Your Family Tree Gift Guide for the Holidays

    November 21, 2016
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    A Baker’s Dozen of Free Genealogy Websites! Are You Missing These?

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      Explore more free genealogy websites for your ancestors. 13 helpful and lesser used databases, for the genealogy researcher. We’ve all heard it. “It” being not all records we need for genealogy research are online.  That is absolutely true.  We’ve also heard (and experienced) that genealogy research can be expensive.  Also, absolutely true.  Subscription databases, DNA tests and travel to archives and local libraries all add up. Saving money and being frugal genealogy researchers is important to us! We have limited genealogy dollars and we want to make those dollars count. I’m here to help! 13 Free Genealogy Websites I’ve got a baker’s dozen (13) free genealogy websites that you…

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    10 FREE Social History Sites To Improve Your Genealogy Research

    May 11, 2020
    Do you recognize your ancestor's friends in the family photos? Who was important to your ancestor? Not all of the photographs you have in your collection will be of your ancestors. You may well have photographs of individuals who are not related to you.

    5 Resources To Identify Your Ancestor’s Friends

    April 7, 2016
    Learn how to find and use millions of pages of records digitized online at FamilySearch that don’t show up when you conduct a general search.

    Worth a Thousand Words: How to Find and Use Image-Only Collections on FamilySearch

    January 5, 2018
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    Female Ancestors

    Women In the Family Tree – Everything You Need To Know

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      Genealogy tips and strategies to help you in finding the women in your family tree. Female ancestors do not have to be your brick wall. How many of your genealogy brick walls concern your female ancestors?  Does it feel like the women in your family tree are hiding from you? It may feel that way – it does to me sometimes! – but those female ancestors are just waiting to be found.  I’ve got you covered with this round-up of seven (7) posts here at ARe You My Cousin? ….all the women in the family tree. 🌳 It’s one-stop shopping! More Websites For Researching Female Ancestors Newspapers!  Newspapers are…

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    How To Start Researching Your African American Female Ancestors

    November 23, 2020
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