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Relatives at RootsTech: Are We Related?

February 11, 2024
by Alice Childs DiscoveryRootsTech

RootsTech 2024 is just seventeen days away. Will you be attending virtually or in person? Whatever your level of expertise or involvement in family history, there is something at RootsTech for you! Over the next three weeks, I will be sharing some id ...

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Writing a Genealogy Research Report

February 2, 2024
by Alice Childs MethodologyResearch Like a Pro Study Group

This series focuses on how I applied the steps in the Research Like a Pro process for a personal research project. I walked through these steps in a study group I participated in last fall. The first step was to create a research objective. This ...

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Three Ways to Find Ancestor Stories

January 29, 2024
by Alice Childs Discovery

In a recent article for Liahona magazine, London Brimhall wrote about the power of family stories. She quoted Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who recently taught that learning about our family “can change our lives in surpr ...

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Creating a Research Log

January 23, 2024
by Alice Childs MethodologyResearch Like a Pro Study Group

This series focuses on how I applied the steps in the Research Like a Pro process for a personal research project. I walked through these steps in a study group I participated in last fall. The first step was to create a research objective. This ...

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Fulfill Your Family History Resolutions with Help from the BYU Record Linking Lab

January 21, 2024
by Alice Childs 5-Minute Family HistoryFamily History on the Go

Have you ever set a goal and then felt it slither away into the land of unfulfilled intentions a few weeks into January? This often happens to me. I start the year with great expectations, but then January 2 hits, I go back to real life, and my good ...

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Basics of Evidence Analysis, Part 3: Information

January 19, 2024
by Alice Childs Records

Welcome to the third installment in a six-part series about evidence analysis, or the process by which we determine the reliability of the evidence we discover in our research. Part One discussed the value of evidence analysis and presented three imp ...

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Creating a Research Plan

January 17, 2024
by Alice Childs MethodologyResearch Like a Pro Study Group

This series focuses on how I applied the steps in the Research Like a Pro process for a personal research project. I walked through these steps in a study group I participated in last fall. The first step was to create a research objective. This ...

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Youth Activity Idea: Ancestor Connections

January 14, 2024
by Alice Childs Discover Your HeritageDiscovery

Last week I wrote about how to use Compare a Face to find out which ancestor you most resemble. This week, I want to share a youth activity idea using Compare a Face. Please note that each youth will need to be signed in to the FamilySearch Tree app ...

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Basics of Evidence Analysis, Part 2: Sources

January 12, 2024
by Alice Childs Records

Welcome to the second installment in a six-part series about evidence analysis, or the process by which we determine the reliability of the evidence we discover in our research. Part one discussed the value of evidence analysis and presented three im ...

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Creating a Locality Guide for Norfolk, England

January 10, 2024
by Alice Childs Locality ResearchResearch Like a Pro Study Group

This series focuses on how I applied the steps in the Research Like a Pro process for a personal research project. I walked through these steps in a study group I participated in last fall. The first step was to create a research objective. This was ...

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