While I’ve been working on a newer family line (Howatt from PEI) I discovered some of my cousins were involved in politics there. I found this out by doing a Google search on their names and articles from Wikipedia came up in the top searches. One of my projects this year is to add more…
This past Monday I finally had time to check in on Facebook and what was the first thing I see? A posting that RootsMagic 6 had been released! That was a wonderful surprise. Since then I’ve had time to try out the new version and watch RootsMagic’s latest webinar. I have to say I think…
A heads up for fellow researchers, I received a newsletter in my email this morning that ArkivDigital will be having another FREE weekend this November 10-11. You can find out more about it on their website. ArkivDigital is one of my favourite places to research my Swedish ancestors!
Thanks to a cousin gifting me with a test, I have the results of Family Tree DNA Family Finder. Very interesting indeed!
A little while ago I posted about the Stinson family I was working on. I’ve made a little progress, but also hit many brick walls.I’ve been able to track the older children listed in the 1851 census (listed in the post linked to above), but the parents have just vanished.The Anglican Archives checked for a death record for Margaret and…
I’m a bit late getting this posted. Below is a list of all the birthdays and anniversary’s in my family tree database. Naturally only non living people are listed to protect privacy. 1 April 1767 Elizabeth Sager 2 April 1677 Claude Vivier 2 April 1682 Jean Baptiste Poirier 2 April 1803 Marie Gallant 2 April 1849 Ladislas Gallant 3…
In my email this morning was a letter from Ancestry stating that from April 7th to the 14th, their civil war records are free access!So if your not an Ancestry subscriber this is a good time to find some information on your USA Civil war solders.Ancestry.com
Last night I heard about a new search engine that was just released. It’s name is Mocavo and it’s is a genealogy search engine for ONLY FREE genealogy resources.I spent some time searching on it last night and I really do like it. The results come up quickly and it’s nice not to have to weed though tons…
To celebrate Genealogy Research Day in Sweden, ArkivDigital is opening all of their records for free access on March 19 and 20th!I have a family line in Sweden and I’m looking forward to doing some more research this weekend on them.To read the details and download their image viewer, read their news release.
I thought I would start posting a list each month of the birth dates and anniversary’s listed in my family tree database. Naturally only the names of deceased people will be posted to protect the privacy of others.These are my listings for March. 1 March 1669 Roeloff Swartwout and Margaretha Klock (342) 1 March 1709…