July 12, 2020

Inviting Others to Share

Editor’s Note: This article by David Castleton was originally published in on GraniteFHC.com and is used with the author’s permission. Last year I attended a class at the Sandy Granite Family History Center regarding using social media to assist with family history. The instructor shared a story about a woman whose mother died when she was quite young. She didn’t...

Memories/Social Media
July 5, 2020

New: Online Book Links

When we think about books like “The History of the Wilmer Family” and “Genealogical History of Deacon Stephen Hart and His Descendants” we usually think of going to a library and hunting for them on the shelves. It may surprise you to know that thousands of these books are readily available online, as documents in the public domain. What’s more,...

Research/What is new at The FHG
July 5, 2020

Freedom, Family, and Perspective

Several days ago my wife and I watched “Hamilton” in its streaming debut. The music and stage production were, of course, terrific. My wife was more familiar with the songs and dialog, and she finally was able to see the faces and places associated with the words. As I thought about what I had seen, three basic concepts came to...

Families/U.S. Research
July 5, 2020

Integrating Family History into Your Lifestyle

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Overson Family about 1915 enhanced and colorized by MyHeritage.com Genealogy can become an all-consuming passion but it is always best to have moderation in all things. Some of us spend an inordinate amount of time doing their own...

Family/General
June 28, 2020

Fitting Family History into Your Life

Question: How do you squeeze a huge object (family history) into a small box (your free time to work on it)? Answer: In small pieces. As explained in the 15 Minutes page of The Family History Guide, you can accomplish some amazing things with your family history by approaching it in segments of 15 minutes or more. In the “Fitting...

General/Learning/Memories
June 28, 2020

How Social Media and Family History Brought a Family Together

It is quite amazing to think about how far we have come with technology. Since the creation of the Internet, there have been many changes in the way we shop, research, communicate, and even in how we do family history. More particularly, social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, have made it easier to write and share content...

Memories/Social Media/Technology
June 28, 2020

Languages, Scripts, and Genealogy

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. The United States is a nation of immigrants. About 1.6% of the population are Native Americans. If we persist in doing genealogical research we will all find ourselves trying to read difficult to decipher handwriting and nearly...

Country Research/Records/Research
June 21, 2020

A Gift from My Dad

It’s early on a Saturday morning in Southern California, in the late 1960’s. The aroma of fresh waffles is already starting to fill the house as I peek into the kitchen. My brother’s baseball card collection covers  about half the table (and Mom will make him clean it up before breakfast). I can already guess where Dad is: he’s probably...

Families/Family/Memories/Research
June 21, 2020

MyHeritage’s New Photo Enhancement Feature

Once again, MyHeritage has recently announced a new feature that continues to make photographs come to life. This new feature allows people to take their old photographs of their ancestors and enhance them. Essentially, the feature ‘cleans’ the photo from static and aging in a way that makes the pictures look like they came out brand new. Combined with their...

Family History Activities/MyHeritage/Technology/Uncategorized
June 21, 2020

Where was the event? Where are the records?

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. The questions in the title of this post are two separate but closely related issues. To start, I will repeat a general guideline for all genealogical researchers: The place of an event in an ancestor’s or relative’s life...

Country Research/Records/Research/U.S. Research
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