Kimberly's Genealogy Blog March 2007 Archive

Researching French Roots
My grandmother was born in France and I still love to hear her stories of her years growing up there. Many of them are sad - WWII was a tough ... Read More

Thursday March 29, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

NARA Records Added to WorldVitalRecords
I ran across a variety of National Archives databases while doing some research on WorldVitalRecords.com last weekend, and wondered to myself why these records which are available online for free ... Read More

Monday March 26, 2007 | permalink | comments (2)

Genealogy Teleconference Seminars
Ancestral Manor has announced a long list of genealogy teleconference seminars on a broad range of genealogy-inspired topics. These conferences - some of them free - are conducted via telephone ... Read More

Monday March 26, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

Free Databases at Your Local Library
Your library card could be the key to your past. Before forking over big bucks for subscriptions to online genealogy sites, check to see what databases you may have access ... Read More

Thursday March 22, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

Find French-Canadian Ancestors for Free
A large portion of the Drouin Collection, one of the most important resources for family history research in the province of Quebec, Canada, has been added to Ancestry.com. Best of ... Read More

Monday March 19, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

Family Pursuit
A new genealogy management software is on the horizon. Family Pursuit was publicly unveiled at the 2007 Computerized Family History and Genealogy Conference held this past weekend in Provo, UT. ... Read More

Monday March 19, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

Look at Me
Dick Eastman recently posted about a neat online site which contains images of family photos that have been lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The site, which began with a few ... Read More

Sunday March 18, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

The Other Side of the Ancestry.com/FHC Story
Leland Meitzler over at GenealogyBlog has posted an interesting copy of a letter from The Generations Network to its employees which addresses, in part the decision to discontinue free access ... Read More

Sunday March 18, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

FHC Access to Ancestry.com to be Discontinued
For several years, Ancestry.com has provided free access to their genealogy databases to patrons of Family History Centers around the world. This relationship appears to now be coming to an ... Read More

Saturday March 17, 2007 | permalink | comments (2)

Do You Have Irish Ancestry?
On St. Patrick's Day it seems like everyone is at least a little Irish. Try as I might, however, I have yet to find a drop of Irish blood in ... Read More

Saturday March 17, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

Who is Black and who is White?
Another article on ancestry DNA testing in the New York Times tells the story of a white cattle rancher from Missouri connecting with his genetic cousin, an African American gospel ... Read More

Wednesday March 14, 2007 | permalink | comments (3)

Family History and the Holocaust: a Day of Learning
On April 22, 2007, in New York City, the Jewish Genealogical Society will present an all-day seminar on the Holocaust, a seminal event in Jewish history that has affected almost ... Read More

Monday March 12, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

Beyond Google: Searching the Invisible Web
Google is a great search engine, but it misses a vast amount of information that is generally "invisible" to its Internet spiders and crawlers -- most of tucked away in ... Read More

Monday March 5, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

Dating a Cabinet Card
Cabinet cards, popular in the late 1800s, are easy to recognize because they are mounted on cardstock, often with an imprint of the photographer and location just below the photo. ... Read More

Friday March 2, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)