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Getting to Know Your Ancestor Better

Written by Tiffany on August 30, 2019.

Hello everyone! Can you believe August is just about over and we will officially be in Fall in a few days? Wow, how time flies! Wouldn’t it be fun to walk in your ancestor’s shoes? Who among you has done that yet? It could be going to a town that they lived in or doing a whole journey from your ancestor’s birth to their...

Midsummer-Scandinavian Style

Written by Tiffany on June 21, 2019.

Hello everyone! How’s your summer going? Is it rocking and rolling or are you already bored?! Has your genealogy research been put on the back burner due to kids, pools, and flexible summer schedules? No worries! You just do you this summer! My summer is very much up and down with things that my daughter wants to do and things that I want...

Public Family Trees-Can They Help You?

Written by Tiffany on May 31, 2019.

Hello everyone! How has your week been? Has it been crazy busy or slow and steady? Have you tried your hand at the tips I taught last week about Ancestry and Family Search? It’s super awesome, huh? I really have fun using the card catalog and the Family Search catalog. I hope you are having some good luck with them. If not, then drop...

Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org Search Tips

Written by Tiffany on May 24, 2019.

Hello everyone! How’s your week going? I’m excited to be with you for another week! Have you ever searched on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org and they show you a hundred or thousand search results? It can be very overwhelming! Let me tell you about a little known feature on both of them that has helped me be a better and faster researcher. Ancestry.com Card...

Genealogy Travel-Tips and Tricks

Written by Tiffany on March 22, 2019.

It’s travel season everyone! I’ve been feeling the travel bug ever since my neck of the woods has warmed up somewhat. It’s got me thinking about doing some genealogy travel. What is that you ask? It’s where you travel around the world for genealogy purposes. You can travel for researching at archives, for visiting your...

Documenting Our Ancestor’s Lives

Written by Tiffany on March 9, 2019.

Hi, friends! I hope all is well this week! Any good genealogy gems this week? Wasn’t RootsTech amazing last week. I learned so much about the different aspects of genealogy. I want to focus this week on documenting our genealogy. Why do we search for hours on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org looking for that elusive record? Why does it matter...

RootsTech and Becoming a Professional Genealogist

Written by Tiffany on March 1, 2019.

RootsTech logo Hello everyone! How’s it going this week? It’s Roots Tech week! What’s that you say? It’s a genealogy convention held in Salt Lake City, UT that covers everything genealogy. They have classes on just about everything, DNA, photos, preservation, tech, regional research, maps, social media, latest news and trends, etc. ...

Scandinavian Marriage Records-More than just Names

Written by Tiffany on February 15, 2019.

Happy Valentine’s month! I hope you’ve had a great week. I also hope you had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday. We will be talking about Scandinavian marriage records in a minute because marriage records are a great topic to talk about for the month of February. But first let me tell you about my Valentine’s day. It was a normal...

How Pedigree Charts and Family Group Sheets can help you become a better Researcher

Written by Tiffany on February 1, 2019.

Hello everyone! How’s it going this week? Have you tried starting a research log for your ancestor? How is that going? What have you learned so far about using this research tool for organizing your research? Don’t get discouraged if it takes you longer to get a feel for the research log and how you want to use it. It took me awhile to get a log...