Category Archives: GenBlog

Just a quick announcement that the Genealogy Scavenger Hunt is on sale for just $39 for an annual subscription. With the scavenger hunt, you get a hands-on activity each month where you’ll learn about all sorts of records, online repositories, and resources. You’ll be able to test your skills, all while having fun with this unique learning experience. Here’s what some of my scavenger hunters are saying:

Another crazy week for me last week, as I attended yet another institute (and I have one next week too!). Anyway, I attended the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) for the entire week (virtually) and my brain is swimming in ideas. I felt like I needed to beef up my skills around this subject, so I took Judy Russell’s course Women and Children First! As with all of Judy’s courses, I was not disappointed.

Last week was a busy week. I attended the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) for the entire week (virtually) and learned lots. One of the items on my education plan is to learn more about how to study and incorporate social history into my research and family stories. So when I saw that GRIP was going to be virtual again this year, and that Gena Phillibert-Ortega would be teaching Beyond a Name & Date: Advanced Practices in Social History, I jumped at the opportunity to dive deep into this […]

I have some exciting news to share! Under my Genealogy In Acrion brand, I just released a new self-study mini-course all about planning your genealogy research! Research Planning for Genealogists is designed to help you build an actionable research plan for your next genealogy project (and, of course, you can use it again and again for other projects). I truly believe that a research plan is an essential tool if you really want to make true progress on your genealogy projects. With a plan, you’ll: Gain clarity and focus Get […]

You’ve probably spent some time over the last two weeks trying to find people in the 1950 US census (I know I have!). But it’s not an easy task, especially without a solid index and the search tools that we’re used to on genealogy websites. That said, I’ve created a variety of videos that address some of the issues and offer solutions and workarounds. Here’s what I’ve posted so far (more coming, so be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel!):

It’s been a busy week of learning! Just wrapped up five days of genealogy education at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG). To continue my educational journey into the world of military research, I took Michael Strauss’s Operation Jumpstart: Beyond the Basics of Military Research. In 2021, I took Michael’s Military Records I: The Colonial Era To the Vietnam War course at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), which was excellent, so I followed it up with this SLIG course. (You can read my debrief of the […]

As I suspected, 2021 was much like 2020, and I wasn’t able to get all of my 2021 goals accomplished. Let see how I did. I wanted to attend SLIG and IGHR, and CHECK, I did both. I took Judy Russell’s Corpus Juris: Advanced Legal Concepts for Genealogy at SLIG (and LOVED it!) and I took Michael Strauss’s Military Records I: The Colonial Era to the Vietnam War (which was GREAT!). I also attended RootsTech 2021, NGS 2021, and the 2021 International German Genealogy Conference.

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