Category Archives: Advice & How-To

Friday Finds – 12/6/13

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

Legacy 8 – What Happened to the History List and How to Get it Back

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 […]

Genealogy By the States – Week 40 – South Dakota

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 […]

Friday Finds – 10/04/13

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

Genealogy By the States – Week 34 – Kansas

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 […]

Friday Finds – 08/16/13

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

Tip for German Research – Write it Out…in GERMAN!

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 […]

FGS 2013 & ACPL Checklist

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 […]