Category Archives: Advice & How-To

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

In previous Legacy versions, the Back button had a drop-down that opened the History List that allowed you to navigate to any of the most recent people you’ve worked on, without having to click the Back button a dozen times.  At first glance, Legacy 8 did not seem to have this feature any longer, as there was no drop-down for the Back button.  I did, however, find the feature and had to manually add it to the My Toolbar toolbar.  To do this, make sure you are in the My […]

If you have family that lived in South Dakota, and you haven’t already checked out the state censuses for 1905 to 1945, you must head over to FamilySearch and do so now! For each of these five censuses, each person is enumerated on their own card that contains a ton of useful information.  The 1905 census has great information, but 1915-1945 uses the same card that has fantastic information, including wife’s maiden name, year or marriage, and military service (with details).

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

This week I thought I’d talk about the Kansas state censuses since they can be extremely helpful for researchers.  This post will only cover the state censuses (not the territorial) that occurred in the years 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, and 1925.  Not only do they provide data in between the federal census years, there are some great tidbits of information collected that may help you research ancestors that lived in, or passed through, Kansas.

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

There are plenty of guides out there that show the German alphabet, in the Fraktur, Sütterlin, and Kurrent styles.  These guides can really help you when trying to decipher old documents that use the German language.  One that I find useful can be found here and contains all three styles.  However, I have taken a slightly different approach, and thought I’d share it on the off chance it helps someone else.

So instead of doing a “packing” list for my upcoming trip to the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) 2013 Conference and Allen County Public Library (ACPL), I thought I’d post my to-do list.  These are things I needed to do to prepare for the conference and research at the ACPL.  I used a similar list when prepping for RootsTech 2012 in conjunction with a trip to the Family History Library.  Maybe it will help you as you prep for the FGS conference, which is just a mere week away! Download […]