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  • Mastering Source Citations with RootsMagic Templates: A Step-by-Step Guide

    ., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 Publisher: Ancestry.com, Lehi, Utah If using an online Track FAN Club Relationships In Your Genealogy Software RootsMagic Fact Types: Easily Organize Your Ancestor's

  • 5 Tips For Beginning Genealogy Research

    why you think facts are connected or records that say one thing but should say another point to your ancestors Basics of Evaluating Evidence While Researching Your Family Tree How do I know if a record belongs to my ancestors

  • Prepare to Write a Family History By Organizing Through Roots Magic

    organized Should you be embarking on the task to write a lengthier project involving many generations and ancestors RootsMagic keeps track of my ancestor’s vital RootsMagic serves me well because it can organize the As I research an ancestor, I could keep a research log (which I admit I don’t utilize as much at present Next month, I will share the process of writing the story of when an ancestor was born.

  • Self-Editing Secrets to Improve Your Family History Writing

    want to learn about the "Newspaper Naming" technique that I discuss in this post Stop Repeating Your Ancestor's Write a Better Family History Through Editing How to Make My Story Make Sense   Stop Repeating Your Ancestor's

  • What is an IGI Source on FamilySearch?

    More Tips on Using FamilySearch How to Record Stillbirths On Your Family Tree My Ancestor Has Multiple

  • Heritage Scrapbook Mother Themed Page

    Focal Person albums feature the person, two generations of ancestors, and two generations of descendants Sign up for our newsletter and receive the free Writing Guide: 5 Steps to Quickly Write About Your Ancestors

  • 7 Design Secrets to Make Your Published Genealogy Book Unforgettable

    Football teammates  Political offices held Sometimes, when you do not want to write every detail about an ancestor Let’s say you’re quoting an ancestor’s letter from the 1800s. For example, in the story of my ancestor Lewis Brown, when I mention the first event in his story (I

  • Why You Don’t Need a Research Log to Be a Great Genealogist

    computer throughout high school and college, I began doing genealogy in the early days of Personal Ancestral

  • The Value of Comparing Two DNA Kits on GEDmatch Genesis

    Discover the changes that occur when you match cousins of a known common ancestor, a parent-child, and With DNA, we can actually see how people might be related to us as far as which families or common ancestors This post talks about a tool that can help you filter if you know the common ancestor you share with great-grandparents they descend from, you can start to classify your matches of people related through your common ancestors segment that my cousin shares with this match even though we’re all related through the same common ancestor

  • Magazine Style Timeline Layout for Heritage Scrapbook

    Would you like to showcase your ancestor's life using a few photos and highlights of their life? Timelines help you quickly share the chronological highlights of an ancestor's life and their connection This way, if you have a single photo from a specific period in your ancestor's life, you can incorporate

  • What are DNA Pile Up Regions?

    In other words, we received the DNA from the same ancestors or that same ancestral population because

  • An EASIER way to create a Surname Table

    A genealogy surname table is designed to quickly highlight 62 direct line ancestral names out to your I moved my ancestors’ surnames from the FamilySearch fan chart to my Google Sheets table.

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