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The Best of 2024: Curating an Album with FamilySearch Memories

January 30, 2025
by Alice Childs with One Comment 5-Minute Family HistoryDiscoveryFamily History on the GoMy TribeWriting Your Family History

When my children were young, I started creating scrapbooks for each of them. I kept this up for a few years, but it's been a couple of decades since I did any scrapbooking. Every year, I determine that this is the year I am going to create a digital ...

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3 Easy Ways to Discover Ancestor Stories

September 28, 2020
by Alice Childs with No Comment Discover Your HeritageMy Tribe

"How do we make our ancestors real? We tell their stories." (Rosemary Wixom) My genealogy journey began a number of years ago when I decided to compile a book about my ancestors. As I discovered stories that I had never before heard, I remember ...

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Finding William’s Father: Timeline Analysis in a DNA Project

April 28, 2020
by Alice Childs with No Comment DNAMy Tribe

Last week I gave some background information and shared my objective and limitations for my current DNA project, Finding William's Father.   I also sent a letter to a potential Y-DNA test taker. On Sunday afternoon I uploaded my Dad’s DN ...

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How Reasonably Exhaustive Research Helped Me Discover an Elusive Ancestor

February 21, 2020
by Alice Childs with No Comment My Accreditation JourneyMy TribePennsylvania

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 ...

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What’s in a Name?

February 11, 2020
by Alice Childs with No Comment Discover Your HeritageMy Tribe

What do you know about your name? One of the suggested "About Me" activities on FamilySearch's In-Home Activities page is learning all about "My Name." To do so, some of the suggested items include the following: Ask a parent about the story of ...

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Close to Home: Discovering Ancestor Events in Your Neighborhood

January 26, 2020
by Alice Childs with No Comment Gather Your TribeMy Tribe

This is my 4th great-grandfather, Morris Charles Phelps: I love reading stories about the adventures and trials he and his wife Laura experienced as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in its early days in Missouri an ...

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Using Compare-a-Face to Identify Old Photos

January 14, 2020
by Alice Childs with 4 Comments Gather Your TribeMy Tribe

Do you have a favorite ancestor photo?  This is one of my current favorites.    A few months ago, I logged in to FamilySearch and discovered that it had been added to my 2x great-grandmother's profile.  I was overjoyed!  Be ...

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Finding Mary (Marna) Andersdotter: A Search for Immigration Records

January 7, 2020
by Alice Childs with No Comment Immigration and NaturalizationMy Tribe

Mary (Marna) Anderstdotter was born in Sweden.  At the age of 18 she joined the Mormon church. Her mother was horrified and told Mary she must either give up her religion or leave home. Mary would not give up her new-found faith, so she left ...

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Belle Sanders–Belle of Wyoming Day

December 14, 2019
by Alice Childs with 5 Comments My Tribe

My grandmother is Isabelle Lyman Sanders. One of my favorite things to do when I was growing up was to visit Grandma Sanders. She owned a small country store on the highway that passed through Otto, Wyoming. Her house was attached to the store, and ...

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Separating Men of the Same Name

September 11, 2019
by Alice Childs with No Comment My Tribe

A few months ago, I completed a project in which the objective was to determine which of two Jacob Fishers living in Northampton County, Pennsylvania in the 1790 census was my ancestor.  I used the FAN principle and created a fan club made up of ...

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As an Accredited Genealogist® professional, I am excited to help you connect with your ancestors through family history and genealogy research. Whatever your age or skill level, there is something here for you!

 

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