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LitvakSIG is Participating in the 33rd Annual IAJGS Conference

Thank you to Eden Joachim, President of LitvakSIG, for this announcement. LitvakSIG is the Special Interest Group (SIG) devoted to Lithuanian (Litvak) – Jewish genealogy, heritage and family history. Our website is www.litvaksig.org. Our All Lithuania Database (ALD) containing 1.2 million records is freely searchable, as is our Shtetl Database. Our website has hundreds of pages of information …

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How Wildcard Searches Can Uncover Ancestors

Thank you to Bob Vornlocker for this guest post. A recent German Genealogy Group experience with creating an on-line index for the records of Most Holy Trinity Church in New York, in its early days a German parish, has prompted me to write this update to an article originally published by the GGG and Dick Eastman, …

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A One-Name Study of the Surname Featherstone

Thank you to W Paul Featherstone for sharing his one-name study. It began back in 1995 when I was given my Featherstone lineage back to the 1500s by another researcher, also a Featherstone, who had studied and produced around 20 odd trees just involving North and East Yorkshire. Her sources list now contains 67 pages …

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Appreciating Our Ancestor’s Education & Controlling an eBay Habit

Photo Caption: Jodi’s recent class photo purchases (stop her before she buys again!) I have a problem. That’s the first step to recovery right? I am addicted to purchasing old class photos. To help myself I have given up eBay for Lent (I can hear the share price dropping as I type this.) This picture …

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Tidbit: Today in MacAlister History

Thank you to Lynn McAlister for sharing her blog with us: Today in MacAlister History. About the Blog: The Scottish (& Irish) MacAlister clan has participated in historical events great and small since they originated as a branch of the Clan Donald in the 13th century. As as a relatively small clan, however, they have often …

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What is the Best Way to Uncover Details About Our Ancestors?

Thanks to Kiki Corbin for sharing one of our first genealogy tidbits. Kiki says: “I have traced my Corbin family back to the 1400’s after many years of research. I was only able to trace my Angelakis family back 4 generations, which also took many years. Now I’d like to know more about these people, …

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You are Number One on the Pedigree Chart

The Pedigree or Ancestral Chart is a summary of your family at a glance. It contains basic information about each maternal and paternal generation of your family. Whether you are just beginning your family history or reviewing your research, your pedigree chart is the guide to your family tree. For beginners, it is helpful to …

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Enter to Win a 12 Month World Subscription to Findmypast.com!

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Finding Your Roots with Findmypast: Insider Tips

With one of the largest assortments of genealogical records available online, Findmypast.com offers some pretty unique collections. The site offers a wide assortment of records for those of us researching relatives from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and a growing collection of records from the US, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea. Findmypast.com is also the only genealogy research service …

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One-Name Studies: Why Study Just One Surname?

I’d accepted a job in the Netherlands to manage an acquisition for my firm but my kids were at an age when we wanted a settled home life for them. So I commuted monthly across the Atlantic for four years. While I was away, my younger son, David, was accepted into his school’s “gifted and …

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