Friday’s Five at Five for June 29, 2018

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Back with another 5 great blogposts I read this week: Using First Names as Evidence of Family Relationships by DiAnn Iamarino Remember to use name as hints, not proof. And also remember that you may not have discovered all of a couple’s children, which could through off the naming birth order. How I Solved It: Always […]

Friday’s Five at Five for June 7, 2018

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A rundown of blog posts I found enlightening this week: We need to give credit to our fellow genealogists for their hard work and so other genealogists can verify their work. It’s also, as Marcia Crawford Philbrick points out, in Don’t Just Copy – Give Credit, a way for genealogists to contact the original researcher. A great […]

Friday’s Five at Five for May 18, 2018

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Five blogposts I found educational: How I Solved It: Frederick Allen Downing: finding the father of an illegitimate child– A blogpost from Suzi Brent reminding us to look at the child’s name when searching for a birth father. We should always write out our genealogical conclusions, even if they are retractions of earlier conclusions. Here’s […]

Friday’s Five at Five for May 11, 2018

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                The posts I mention below are now about a month old on their writers’ sites, but still worthy of a read: Academic genealogy – I don’t have a PhD, but I enjoy reading about the “family tree” of anything – people, animals, academics. It works just like any […]

Friday’s Five at Five for April 6, 2018

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This week’s five favorite blogposts include: Deciphering Place Names Just Got Easier – How to use Google and Meyer’s Gazetteer to try to determine a German town name. Finding Cemetery Records in an Archive – A post about the different cemetery records you might find in an archive. Women’s History Month 2018: A P.S. to Asylums […]

Friday’s Five at Five for March 9, 2018

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After last week’s Five at Five focusing on RootsTech, I’ve gone back to before RootsTech to find some excellent blogposts that still need mentioning. Judy Russell in Where from Pinellas talks about boundary changes and a software program called Animap. If you have Michigan ancestors, you must give Seeking Michigan a try. Brenda Leyndyke explains […]

Friday’s Five at Five for March 2, 2018: RootsTech Edition

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Today’s roundup of fascinating blogs focuses on RootsTech. I’ve never attended RootsTech in person, but have followed RootsTech’s livestream and the Twitter hashtags #RootsTech and #NotAtRootsTech for a few years now. The following blogposts provide me with a better understanding of what RootsTech is like: From the blog Empty Branches on the Family Tree is […]

Friday’s Five at Five for February 23, 2018

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Here are five genealogy-related articles or blog posts I found helpful this week: The Fix Is In – Ancestry briefly(!) made it far more harder to work as a professional genealogist. How I Tracked Down My 4th Great Grandmother’s Parents – Great example of how understanding the cultural norms of a time and place can […]

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