July 2018 is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 31 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 31 (The Last of Our Genealogy Tips!) – Go Back To The Beginning Today’s the last day in our 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips. We did it! You now have 31 new tips and strategies in your genealogy toolbox. Our last tip?  Go back to the beginning. As genealogy researchers, we pour ourselves into the research of our…

July 2018 is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 30 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 30- Explore Google Books Google books is a fantastic resource for finding books helpful in your genealogy  and family history research. Did I mention many of these books are FREE?!  That makes a frugal genealogist’s heart happy. Books that are in the public domain  are offered for free access. Others you may just get a preview snippet. A variety of books can…

July 2018 is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 29 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 29- Cookbooks! Society and church cookbooks have been around for years.  We all have them.  You know the ones…the little paperback cookbook sitting on your bookshelf.  Local women’s societies or women’s church group would donate recipes that would be put into a book.   The cookbooks were often fundraisers for a local charity. But what can those cookbooks tell you about your…

July 2018 is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 28 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 28- That Third Cousin & Collateral Cousins Do you have that one photograph in your collection you cannot identify?  Wondering if that family legend is really true? Seek out those more distant relatives. Seek out those collateral cousins, too! Share an unidentified photograph(s) and ask them to forward the photograph(s) to other family members they know. Share the oral history that came…