A Complete Guide: Creating Your Genealogy Research Plan With Trello!
You know you should create a genealogy research plan for finding your ancestors, but are you wondering “How?” Maybe you’re really wondering “Why?”. Do you really need to create a genealogy research plan? Maybe you are having flashbacks to those high school term papers! I have to tell you our high school teachers were on to something! Why You Want To Create a Genealogy Research Plan Creating your genealogy research plan will: Keep you on track – and off those rabbit trails – when actively researching. Make you more efficient in your research. Save you time as you search for those ancestors. Genealogy research plans do not have to be…
Use A Genealogy Wildcard Search For Better Ancestor Search Results
It’s a wild, wild, wild(card) world of genealogy records out there! Are your ancestors hiding in them? As a researcher you perform genealogy searches daily to find your ancestors. But you wonder…. Are you maximizing your search results? Getting the best results for finding your ancestors? Are your search results limited because of misspellings and/or transcription errors? Or are you searching for ancestors but unsure of what spelling they used in the records? It’s time for a wildcard search! What is a Genealogy Wildcard Search? One of the best kept search secrets is the wildcard search that allows you to substitute the wildcard characters “*” or a “?” in place…
How To Find & Use Google Books For Genealogy Research
Genealogy researchers love books. I’m no different, but know what I love more? Free Books! Are you missing out on finding online free genealogy related books (including family histories)? If you have not already, it’s time to start exploring Google Books! What is Google Books? Google Books is a service of Google. It is essentially a very large digital public library of of books, magazines, and newspapers. Just image browsing the bookshelves of your favorite genealogy library – only digitally. Best of all, you as a genealogy researcher can potentially find thousands of family histories and other genealogy related books to read for free. (Who doesn’t like free?!) Types of…
How To Pull Genealogy Clues From Your Old Family Photographs
This post is sponsored by The Imaging Alliance; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Old family photos tell the stories of our ancestors. They tell a story of physical characteristics passed down from generation to generation. They tell the stories of special occasions. They tell the stories of everyday life. If you have been a longtime reader of Are You My Cousin?, you know how fortunate I am to have inherited a large collection of family photographs. My great-grandmother Esther Richardson grew up in the early 1900’s when the release of Kodak’s Brownie camera made photography more accessible (and popular) to the general public. Esther and her friends…
