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Fun Genealogy Activities to do With Your Family

Written by Tiffany on July 15, 2022.

It’s summer! And that means fun in the sun, pool time, barbecues, vacations, and lots of downtime at home. So you want to do family history with your family, but you’re looking for ideas. These fun genealogy activities need to be easy, little to no planning, and doable for all ages. Also, they need to appeal to kids who love researching...

Creating a Simple Genealogy Plan for Summer

Written by Tiffany on May 27, 2022.

Do you know how you want to do genealogy this summer? This is my question when summer rolls around every year. What do I want to focus on with my genealogy? How do I want to schedule it into my day? My daughter will be home so do I want to involve her in family history or focus on something else with her? All of these questions float through my...

How to Get to Know Your Women Ancestors

Written by Tiffany on May 20, 2022.

How would you get to know your women ancestors? Would you research them? Find out more of their culture? Would you make their recipes? I recently went to an activity where we had to research our maternal line as far back as we could go. We could only follow the women in that line. It was a fascinating experience for me. My Earliest Women Ancestors I’ve...

Records that Will Help You Find Your Women Ancestors

Written by Tiffany on May 13, 2022.

Today we are taking a deeper dive into the records that will help you find your women ancestors. We all know how difficult it can be to find women in historical records. They changed their surname when they married, they were often not mentioned in records, or their husband was mentioned instead. So some records are easy to find such as census records,...

3 Basic Strategies for Finding Women in Genealogy

Written by Tiffany on May 6, 2022.

Finding women in genealogy can be daunting. There weren’t many records that have their full names or any part of their names listed. They changed their name when they got married. Sometimes they were known only by their husband’s name. If they were married, most of the documents were written under their husband’s name with the...

4 Noticeable Differences in the 1950 Census

Written by Tiffany on April 22, 2022.

What differences in the 1950 census have you seen? Have you noticed new notations? Is the format different? Are the people arranged differently on this record? Yes to all of that! Things are slightly different on this record. I’ve had to learn it myself. So this article shares what’s new or different on this record. And what to do if you can’t find...

How to Research the 1950 Census Record

Written by Tiffany on April 8, 2022.

The 1950 Census records are public! Now at the time of this article, they are still being indexed, but the original records can be searched online starting April 1, 2022. So it’s up to you whether you want to wait for them to be indexed or dive into the original records and go page by page. Eventually, they will all be easily accessed on the major...

My All Time 5 Favorite RootsTech 2022 Classes

Written by Tiffany on March 11, 2022.

Every time I come to RootsTech I struggle with parts of myself that want different things. There’s a part that wants to do better research and dive deep into the obscure records. There’s another part that loves everything about stories and life histories and how to make them sound better and be better. Still another part just wants to...

4 Simple Steps to Create Genealogy Habits

Written by Tiffany on February 11, 2022.

Have you ever found yourself with a lot of genealogy goals and projects, but not a single one done? I have! So in this article we’re talking about how to create genealogy habits that will help you accomplish your genealogy goals and projects. I’ve been reading Atomic Habits by James Clear and I’ve noticed that the rules that he talks about in...