Last week I wrote about the transfer of lands from the family of William Penn and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to original owners. These transfers resulted in what are known as "First Titles." When one of these original owners sold their la ...
Pennsylvania Land Records: First Titles
I have been working on my four-generation project for accreditation through ICAPGen. One of the types of records I need to have a good working knowledge of for the Mid-Atlantic region is land records, so I have spent the last couple of days stu ...
One-Year Blogiversary: Celebrating My Top Ten Blog Posts
Today marks one year since I started blogging about genealogy, and a little over a year since I made the decision to pursue accreditation. What a great adventure! I look back on my progress over the year and am amazed at how far I've come and how m ...
The Value of a Census Study
2020 is the Year of the Census. With extra time on our hands for genealogical research, have you considered completing a census study for an ancestral family? I have been working on Generation 3 of my 4-generation project to submit for ...
German Genealogy Tools
I recently completed a client project in which the objective was to locate original church records for some German ancestors. I will be continuing the project next month, with a few additional tasks included in the objective, so I am taking some tim ...
Extra Time on Your Hands? Dive Into Family History!
Being stuck at home might mean you have extra time on your hands. Why not use this time to dive into your family history? There are many online resources to increase our skills and help us connect with our family's past, present, and future. Here ...
Living Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are You Writing This Down?
News of the COVID-19 pandemic is everywhere. Over the past few days, waves of updates have flooded across media channels, making it the topic of conversations all over the globe. As we navigate our way through this unique moment in history, my tho ...
Looking Back at RootsTech 2020
Each year, my excitement for RootsTech builds as the date draws near, and every year, I am so happy I attended. Once again, my expectations were fulfilled. I came away from the conference feeling inspired, energized, and feeling just plain lucky to ...
How Reasonably Exhaustive Research Helped Me Discover an Elusive Ancestor
I have been researching an ancestor from Pennsylvania named Jacob Fisher for over a decade. I discovered him as the father of Hannah Fisher and have put together details about his life in little bits of time over the years. He is the subject of the f ...
Source Citation Templates
I am currently participating in the ICAPGen Level One Study group. Each participant in the group is preparing their four-generation project for submission. One of our first assignments was to fine-tune our source citation templates. The purpose o ...
