Archives for Diane Haddad
Tips to Get Ready for a Genealogy Conference
Genealogy conference season has begun, and we're getting excited for next week's National Genealogical Society conference here in Cincinnati.Headed to the conference? These tips will help you get ready. (And we're in exhibit hall booth #432—come say hi!)Wear comfortable shoes—you’ll be walking to classes, walking to your hotel...
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How to Savor Your Family’s Food History and Save Favorite Recipes
I'm in love with our newest book, From the Family Kitchen: Discover Your Food Heritage and Preserve Family Recipes by Gena Philibert-Ortega. Before you even open the book, it's pretty: Hardbound, with a lovely cover and a cute yellow ribbon bookmark. And then it's about food history and family recipes...
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Get Forty! Premium
Here’s what to expect when you look for ancestors in the 1940 census.
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Losing Libraries Premium
How are public libraries weathering the economy? We show you the situation in communities across the country.
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Two genealogy companies—UK-based brightsolid and Israel’s MyHeritage—are using the 1940 census release as an opportunity to make a splash in the US genealogy market. Brightsolid, publisher of genealogy and social networking websites and a partner in FamilySearch’s 1940 Census Community indexing project, launched censusrecords.com in February. The...
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How to Research a Civilian Conservation Corps Worker
Expert answers on researching your relative's service in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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Parents With a Sense of Humor
Hee, hee. I was searching Ancestry.com birth records for one of my Frost relatives, and I found this record for an unrelated person: Must be a transcription error, I thought. But here's the original record: Sure looks like Icy Frost to me. I suppose this little one's name could...
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5 Bad Guys of Genealogy Premium
It's not all rainbows and unicorns out there: Even the happy world of family history has its villains. The mere mention of these bad guys gets genealogists' blood boiling.
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50 Cent’s Genealogy Premium
A rapper traces his roots on pop-culture cable channel VH1.
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