Do you have immigrant ancestors? I recently completed a project that included immigration as an element. It was a fun project, and I wanted to share what I have learned about tracing immigrant ancestors. Today I will start with the most r ...
Reflection: Research Like a Pro With DNA Study Group
The last two weeks have been busy ones! The bulk of my time was spent completing the report for my Research Like a Pro with DNA study group. It was exciting to organize everything I had discovered and write an analysis and conclusions along with fu ...
What’s on the Menu? Foods From Grandma’s Kitchen
Today is my Grandma Stevens' birthday. My sister-in-law reached out a few days ago to ask what some of Grandma's favorite foods were so she could serve some of them to her family in honor of Grandma today. What a great way to pass on food tradition ...
Family History Consultant Resources
I have been busy following my research plan for the Research Like a Pro with DNA study group this week. Research planning really makes a project flow smoothly. As I worked, I had my research log open on one screen, and my plan open on the other. Be ...
5 Reasons to Attend Roots Tech
Registration for RootsTech 2020 is now open. Will you be there? #rootstech #genealogy
I Love That I Can Work From Anywhere
One of the things I love about working as a genealogist is that I can work from anywhere! All I need are my laptop and an internet connection and I'm good to go. This week my husband was attending a conference in Las Vegas and I tagg ...
Research Like a Pro with DNA Study Group: Research Planning
Last week in the Research Like a Pro with DNA study group, we discussed Research Planning. I love the planning stage of a research project. This is where everything starts coming together. My research objective is to extend the ance ...
Family History Tools and Resources
This week I have been having fun working on my project for the Research Like a Pro With DNA study group I am participating in. I have been learning so much! I wrote two articles to share what I've been doing. First, in Discovering Ancestor Migrati ...
Exploring DNA Tools
Last week in my Research Like a Pro with DNA study group we began exploring DNA tools and methodology. Up to this point, I have spent a lot of time looking at family trees of DNA matches and examining shared matches as I have been color-coding DNA m ...
Discovering Ancestor Migration Routes
Two weeks ago in my Research Like a Pro with DNA study group we worked on locality research. The ancestors I am currently researching immigrated from Galicia, which was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1815-1918, to Cohoes, New York. They ...