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 ...
I have been researching my husband's ancestors, the Beck family of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania. During the process of my research, I was able to locate land records for Daniel Beck and his sons. These land records provided great evidence that ...
An important term to understand when engaging in genealogical research is "jurisdiction." In general terms, jurisdiction refers to authority over a particular area or group of people. For example, the federal government has jurisdiction over the Un ...
I recently completed a client project in which one of the objectives was to verify the genealogically significant information in some German and French birth, marriage, and death records. As I was abstracting the French records, I noticed some unfam ...
I have been working through the steps to complete a project in which I am trying to discover the name of my 3x great-grandfather using DNA and traditional genealogical research. I’m using my Dad’s DNA reports at Ancestry and MyHeritage for this proj ...
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 ...
I recently completed a Polish research project. Some of the DNA matches I contacted in the process of conducting the DNA portion of the research provided some valuable resources for Polish research (especially in the Lemko region of Southeastern Pol ...
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 ...
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