Tips, tricks, and ideas about recording the past so future generations can understand their family history. Learn about great preservation methods, web links, and how to have fun creating your family’s history.
Family history work is all about discovery, so it’s not surprisingly that genealogy enthusiasts are discovering innovative ways to make researching our past more efficient and enjoyable.
Here is a collection of this weeks innovations designed to help you with your family history work.
Have you got your family reunion all planned out for this summer? Here are just a few fun, easy-to-plan activities that will work in a wide range of settings. These games will keep people occupied and hopefully inspire a bit of conversation. If you want to go the extra mile, start collecting prizes to give away.
Family reunion season is right around the corner which means you need to get planning! If you haven’t already started a list of attendees, I suggest you get that going pronto. There are a number of services out there that will allow you to keep track of your family and guests…
On our way back from a family wedding in Boise, my mom asked if we could take a detour through her home town of Burly, ID. It was about an hour out of the way, but my mom had not seen her home town for over 20 years, so an hour was nothing in comparison.
Our DNA is like a living history book. DNA can tell us about the remarkable journeys our ancestors took from distance places all over the world.
Genealogy is a growing field that attracts all types of people. Maybe you’re the tech savvy genealogist who likes updates on the latest apps and web tools for locating records; or maybe you’re a casual researcher who is mainly interested in personal family history. Whoever you are, here are five great genealogy blogs that we found this week.
While the world of genealogy revolves around all things past, the truth is it’s an evolving work that changes every day. New technology, discoveries, records and information surface constantly that change the study all the time.
Our personal history is enriched by the lives of our ancestors. Those who put in the time to research their past often discover the inspiring victories their ancestors achieved, or reveal heart breaking struggles that they overcame.
It’s that time again! Here we review five more great family history blogs. If you haven’t read our first installment, be sure to check it out here.
If you ever come to a family reunion or Sunday dinner at my house you will find a great divide between those members of my family who have caught the metaphorical genealogy bug and those that have not.