August 2017

Addressing the reality of the microfilm issue

Reality is a slippery subject. What we see and what we perceive may differ significantly from the objective reality surrounding us. This has...

I received the following email notice from FamilySearch: Salt Lake City, Utah (30 August 2017), Thursday, September 7, 2017, marks the closi...

http://www.scchgs.org/meetinghandouts/Wallace__US_Land_Records_Apr_2016.pdf I found an excellent summary of how to find U.S. land records f...

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-tps154.html Genealogists need to be aware of the relative occurrence of the surname...

https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/genealogy.html The United States National Archives maintains the Archives Library Informat...

Genealogy.com is one of the websites owned by Ancestry.com . Previously, the website contained a lot of user related activities including a...

Note: Please read the comments to this post to get an idea of the extent of the problem outlined. This series is a summary of the research i...

MyHeritage.com has introduced an expanded DNA Match Review. This new, improved service adds substantial information to your DNA matches on ...

I guess I am stuck on surnames for a while. One of the major challenges of genealogical research is the relative with a very common name. Un...

Genealogists encounter a lot of surnames since the number will increase with each succeeding generation of ancestors. It is always a good id...

I made a reference to voice recognition software in a recent post about using the Bluetooth interface that came with my hearing aids to dict...

Computers have become ubiquitous. Demographically, genealogists generally fall into the "senior" category. On May 17, 2017, the Pe...

I have worn hearing aids off and on for years, usually more off than on. I recently got a pair that connects to a Bluetooth receiver and mic...

One of my favorite websites and one that I frequently mention is the Internet Archive or Archive.org. The vast numbers of different resourc...

The current FamilySearch microfilm issue has apparently engendered a sub-topic concern about the "restricted" records on the Famil...

During the past couple of weeks, I have been doing an informal poll about the issue of FamilySearch discontinuing microfilm shipments to the...