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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This week I helped a young woman discover some of her ancestors. She previously didn’t even know her grandparents’ full names. She was able to track down their names, and we entered them into her new FamilySearch account. One of her grandfathers is ...
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