Sep 04 2018
The answer is not a simple one and it depends on what your goals are. If you want to share your family history with your extended family, you can create a scrapbook with documents such as birth and death certificates, published obituaries, and family pictures. You can add paragraphs describing the significance of the documents …
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Aug 07 2018
Ever wonder how to find your ancestor’s locations? I’m referring to ancestor burials, their former home address, or place of business or other landmarks. Obviously, there are many publications giving these locations such as cemetery records, census records, and city directories on ancestor’s home or business addresses. There are several methods that give planetary coordinates …
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Apr 03 2018
Many military records since the Revolutionary War are available to the public. Our government keeps all military records for all past wars (except classified records) at different facilities in the U.S. plus many of these records are available online. Our National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collects many government records at their Washington D.C. headquarters …
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Mar 06 2018
As genealogists, we love to dig into our family history. What about the history of your house? My neighborhood was built in 1955 and offered Korean War veterans a three-bedroom house for a down payment of just one dollar. The floor-plan offered space for growing families although electrical outlets were limited. The builders never imagined …
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Mar 06 2018
An often overlooked resource for research is lineage societies. Find fellow descendants of your ancestors, share research, or find that missing link through lineage societies. There seems to be one for every war or important event in history. There are three major lineage societies that have specialized collections of genealogical information. It is worth investigating …
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Feb 06 2018
Where are you in your interest in genealogy? Perhaps taking a DNA test has sparked your interest. To be successful in understanding the results of your DNA test, you need to create a family tree to submit with your test – or after you receive the results. This is important because when we’re searching for …
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Jan 09 2018
Most genealogists know the benefits of joining their local genealogy society, whether they have relatives in the area or not. However, many genealogists don’t think about joining an ethnic society. Ethnic societies offer specific information and can make a huge difference in research success. Because they’re specialized, these societies concentrate on a specific group or …
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Dec 05 2017
If you are a family historian – whether you are a beginner or an expert – I have an assignment for you. Write or create something you could give as a gift for the holidays. It could be a scrapbook, or a journal, or a transcription of letters from an ancestor, or a page on …
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Nov 07 2017
Genealogists are often seen as older people who are familiar with history and use records that end with the 1940 census. When a Millennial, someone born between the early 1980s and 1995, comes to us and asks us to ‘find their family,’ we may not have the answer. Millennials born in 1982 are 35 years …
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Oct 02 2017
By Carol Darrow Is your computer your enemy or your friend? Do you use your computer for just reading and sending emails or just playing games? I want to take this opportunity to tell you that you live in amazing times. You have the world of information at your fingertips – and that includes for …
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Sep 05 2017
By Carol Darrow The best starting place for your search for ancestors is Ancestry.com. It’s available for free to use at Denver, Aurora, Westminster and Jefferson County public libraries as well as at the microfilm reading room at the National Archives located on Huron St. one half mile west of I-25 and Hwy 7 north …
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Aug 01 2017
I was shown a photograph of someone’s ancestor – and the owner of the photo assured me that it a picture of her 3rd great-grandfather taken in 1825. The gentleman was wearing denim bib overalls. A quick check on Google.com indicates that one-piece bib overalls date from the 1850s. More importantly, photography itself was not …
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