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During the first week of May, my sister Vicki and I will join two members of the San Diego Genealogical Society in Salt Lake City. There, at the Church of jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family History Library, I hope to crack one of my toughest research puzzles: the...
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A genealogy veteran recommends Web sites where you can learn facts about your family surnames—which give you clues to where and when they may have lived.
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On Friday, my 86-year-old aunt Lu suffered what the doctors termed a catastrophic stroke. As I write this column, I'm sitting by her bed in the intensive care unit, waiting for her to be transferred to hospice. Odd, isn't it, that at a time like this, my thoughts turn...
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I was inspired to search the Web for ancestral artifacts after reading the October 2004 Family Tree Magazine article by associate editor Lauren Eisenstodt ("Object Lessons," page 50). Lauren wrote about 10 ways to research and preserve family heirlooms. One of the sites I routinely check in hopes...
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True or false: Putting together a family Web site carries the same challenge as writing a family genealogy. Answer: False! A genealogy Web site—much like our genealogy research itself—is a work in progress. So why wait until you've completed your research to begin building your site? Have...
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The first footsteps of many American ancestors were taken on the shores of Virginia. Sometimes called the Mother State because it was the first to be settled, Virginia was the 10th colony to become a state. The state bird is the cardinal and its tree the dogwood. The state...
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Not long ago my research took me to Texas, in search of a family branch I was trying to link to my own. Thanks to online resources, I was able to establish what look like promising connections. My hunt got off on the fast track when a search of...
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AncestorNews: Preserving Priceless Family Treasures A few days before Christmas, my cousin arrived at my house with a priceless treasure—my grandmother's wedding dress. The dress has ivory lace with a gathered satin band around the waist. Originally, it would have had an undergarment of some kind. For being 90...
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