I am beginning to work on my four generation project for accreditation. Now that I have completed the Research Like a Pro study group I feel ready to tackle this huge endeavor. I will be tracing the paternal line of Alfred W. Beck, who was born in ...
Before beginning the study group, my research experience consisted mostly of autofill searches of FamilySearch and its partner sites to find and attach sources to ancestors on my family tree. I had been able to make a lot of progress and discoveries, ...
I will be the first to tell you that the organization of my genealogy research needs help! I have attended seminars and classes and I have lots of paper syllabi in folders in the cupboards of my office. I have lots of family photos in boxes and eve ...
I have been excited to learn more about using DNA in my genealogical research. One problem: I had never had my DNA tested! In order to overcome this hurdle, I bought Ancestry DNA kits for myself and my husband at Roots Tech in March. Then, they ...
I recently wrote a guest article for Family Locket titled "FamilySearch Timeline Features Help You Research Like a Pro." It's all about using the timeline (including the latest feature - historical events) and maps found on each person's page to he ...
The 7th lesson in my Research Like a Pro Study group is "Report Writing." I was excited about my findings during the research phase of the study group, and anxious to begin writing my report. I have read other research reports and I felt like I und ...
A friend shared this poem with me a few weeks ago and I had to pass it along. Sometimes it seems that the more mysteries I solve, the more I uncover! One day I was sure the truth I had found! Determined to turn this thing upside down, I looked u ...
When I was a beginning family history researcher, I often wondered, "How many sources do I need to have to be confident that a person is in the correct family? As I have grown into my role as a genealogist, I have come to understand the need to ...
All genealogists strive to reconstruct family histories or achieve genealogical goals that reflect historical reality as closely as possible. They meet this goal by applying the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) to measure the credibility of conclus ...
For my four-generation accreditation project, I am researching the Beck/Fisher family of Pennsylvania. I recently revisited records I had previously found to create a timeline of the life of Jacob Fisher, who is the 4th Generation for my ...
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