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In Need of a Hard to Get Record? This Smart New Site Will Help You Find It

Thank you to Wesley Eames of AncestorCloud for this great information. What’s your favorite part of genealogical research? Is it simply working on a branch of your family tree, or is it making progress, finding relatives, and interesting stories? Now what’s your least favorite part of genealogy work? If you’re anything like me it’s exciting to …

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Finally! A Super Easy, Visual Way to Organize Your Genealogy Data

One of the most important things a family historian can do is get organized. It makes research easier in the short term, and you’ll thank yourself repeatedly for it in the future. Many genealogists, including myself, use Evernote — which has both an excellent online and downloadable system for capturing data and organizing information. There is also …

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Break Through Your Brick Walls Today Using Facebook: Here’s How

I continue to be amazed how social media can quickly give you the answers you need to break through your family history brick walls. In just the last 2 weeks, I have turned to Facebook for help and was not disappointed. Here’s how I did it!

Do You Have a Graveyard Kit? Here are the 13 Things I Keep in Mine

By Susan Wallin Mosey Is it weird that I have a graveyard kit? How else can you go grave hunting in an organized and well-equipped manner? Mine is stored in a pink bucket with a decal on it. (I’m a very girly grave hunter.) The bucket contains all the stuff I need for proper gravestone …

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What’s a Snobscat? You’ll Need a List of Old Occupations to Find the Answer

One of the most enjoyable things about doing family history research is discovering what your ancestor did to earn a living. But, very often, we find ourselves scratching our heads trying to figure out exactly what an old occupation actually consisted of. Like snobscat… or a mudlark… or an ealdorman. In last week’s list of 25 free …

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Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List: Genealogy Expert of the Week

Our Featured Genealogy Expert series continues this week with help and inspiration from Cyndi Ingle, creator of the much loved genealogy resource site Cyndi’s List! In this series we’re asking family history experts from many backgrounds to answer 5 questions so that we can learn from their many years of experience. Thank you Cyndi for taking the time to …

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Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers | Featured Genealogy Expert of the Week

Last week we featured Nick Thorne of the Nosey Genealogist as the first expert in our new weekly chat with the pros. In this series, we’re asking family history experts from many backgrounds to share their knowledge with us–quizzing them about favorite resources, common pitfalls and more. This week, Thomas MacEntee, founder of the well-known genealogy blogging community …

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Do You Follow These “Rules” of Genealogy Research?

Well, rules might be a bit strict, but we do have some pretty tight guidelines that we like to follow when we’re doing genealogy research. We promise we use them most of the time. You likely have your own set of rules and we’d love to hear them. What would you add to this list? Want to keep this …

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Nick Thorne of The Nosey Genealogist | Featured Genealogy Expert of the Week

We’re starting a brand new Featured Genealogy Expert series on Family History Daily this week. For this series, we’ve asked a variety of family history experts to answer the same five questions so that we can all learn from their years of experience. Each has provided helpful tips, a selection of favorite resources and more. We’ll be posting answers …

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Planning a Cemetery Visit? Dos and Don’ts to Read Before You Go

Thank you to Ann Raymont for this helpful article. Have you seen those genealogy T-shirts that read “I see(k) dead people”? It’s a fact—we family historians do! And nowhere is that more literally true than in a cemetery. Here are five tips to make the most of your next visit. 1. Before you go Check out …

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