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Free Genealogy Webinars in June 2019!

Week 1 (June 1st – 8th)

Tuesday, June 4, 9pm CT

They really didn’t swim! Finding your ancestors in New South Wales colonial shipping records

Presenter: Carol Baxter

Four groups of people sailed to Australia in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries: convicts, free passengers, soldiers and sailors. This seminar focuses on the free passengers, those who paid their passages or received free passages…

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Free Genealogy Webinars in May 2019!

Week 1 (May 1st – 4th)

Wednesday, May 1, 1pm CT

How to Use Autosomal DNA to Resolve Historical Paternity Cases

Presenter: Ugo Perego, PhD, MSc

“All of us are aware that DNA testing is a formidable tool to address paternity cases. However, when talking about paternity testing, the subjects tested are all alive and willing to provide a DNA sample. The normal procedure involves testing the alleged…

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2019 Giveaway Winner Announcement Ernie Mc Entire is the giveaway winner of our 2019 social media drawing for five free hours of family history research. Congratulations Ernie! Thank you to all who participated.

2019 Easter Genealogy Research Giveaway!

This year, the day after Easter (April 22nd, 2019) we will offer five free hours of genealogy research to the winner of our promotional giveaway. On that date, the winner will be announced from a drawing out of a pool of those who participate under the criteria below. This winner will receive five free hours of genealogy research of US-based records and/or DNA results!

We were able to break…

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Free Genealogy Webinars in April 2019

Week 1 (April 1st – 6th)

Tuesday, April 2, 8pm CT

One Touch Genealogy Research: How to Handle a Record Just Once

Presenter: Thomas MacEntee

“Do you get so excited when you find a new record for an ancestor that you forget to collect the information you need? Does that record shine and glitter so brightly that you are blinded to other vital clues you might need? Learn the “One Pass” approach to…

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Protecting Your Privacy on AncestryDNA

As our previous post on Protecting Your Privacy on GEDmatch remains the most popular on our blog, we are continuing the series with discussions on how to protect your privacy on AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, and FamilyTreeDNA. This post, as the title suggests, focuses on AncestryDNA.

AncestryDNA’s Policy and History

Unlike GEDmatch, AncestryDNA does not allow law enforcement to upload DNA data to…

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Getting to Know Hannah Lathrop Keith: Online Sources

This is a continuation of my previous post about my ancestor, Hannah Lathrop Keith. She lived for a short time and did now show up by name in census records or vital records. I had a few family sources about her, but I wanted to see what else I could find online.

American Genealogical and Biographical Index

I searched for Hannah Lathrop Keith on Ancestry.com, and was unable to find any original…

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#Ancestry #FamilySearch #Female Ancestors #Gile #Keith #Land records #Massachusetts #NEHGS #Ohio

Free Genealogy Webinars in March 2019

Genealogy webinars are a powerful way to expand your genealogy know-how. Below is a list of free genealogy webinars that will broadcast this month.

Week 1 (March 1st – 2nd)

2 March 2019 12pm CT (Saturday)

Irish Research – What’s New

by Donna M. Moughty

Southern California Genealogical Society

“It’s a great time to be researching your Irish Ancestors! Although the loss of records at the Public…

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Getting to Know Hannah Lathrop Keith: Family Sources

How do you find more information on your ancestors, besides just names and dates? Here's how I did this with one of my ancestors, Hannah Lathrop Keith, using family sources.

When I started researching my family tree, I did not start from scratch.

My parents and grandparents had been researching their own genealogy for some time before I came along. They had written down many names and dates into handwritten and typewritten genealogy scrapbooks, which then were transferred into a computer file. I helped transfer that computer file onto Ancestry.com and…

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#19th Century #Family History #Family Sources #Female Ancestors #finding sources #Genealogy #Gile #Keith #Lathrop #Ohio #Old Letter #Organization #Step Families

Free Genealogy Webinars in February 2019 Genealogy webinars are a powerful way to expand your genealogy know-how. Below is a list of…

Five Famous Historical Mysteries Solved With Genetic Genealogy

Lately, solved genetic genealogy mysteries appear in the news very often. This made it easy to miss some of the biggest historical discoveries of genealogical DNA research in the past few years. An increasing number of breakthroughs owe quite a bit to DNA testing and genetic genealogy techniques. Check out our list below for five examples:

1) English King Richard III

In 2012, researchers at the…

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#DNA #genetic genealogy

Interpreting Your Ancestor's Civil War Pension File: The Pension Certificate

Interpreting Your Ancestor’s Civil War Pension File: The Pension Certificate

We’ve talked generally about the laws behind Civil War Pension records, and outlined how to order it. Once you receive your ancestor’s pension file, a new challenge arises. Many at this point find themselves sitting before a large, intimidating stack of papers all shuffled together, unorganized and difficult to decipher. The next few blog posts in this series will cover in more detail what these…

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#Civil War #Civil War Pensions

Thanksgiving Links

While you are digesting your Thanksgiving dinner, here are some interesting genealogy and history related articles from around the web this month:

Here’s The Crazy Story About Thanksgiving You’ve Never Heard Huffpost Interview with Charles Mann and Paula Peters What were the motivations of Massasoit and Squanto when they introduced themselves to the pilgrims? Did you know that Squanto was kidnapped…

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How to Order Your Ancestor’s Civil War Pension File (Union Side)

Order Your Ancestor’s Civil War Pension File to Learn Details about Their Service

We’ve talked about how to find out whether or not your ancestor fought in the Civil War. We’ve also talked about how to discover their military unit, and even how to find their card in a pension index. We’ve even talked a bit about what pensions are and what you might expect to find in them. By now, then, you should…

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#Civil War

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