Archives for Nancy Hendrickson
AncestorNews: Be My Valentine Premium
AncestorNews: Be My Valentine I recently acquired a Valentine that my grandmother's younger sister sent to her around 1915. Although the card is more than 80 years old, the color is still vivid and the lace paper is in fairly good condition. When I got the card, I checked...
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AncestorNews: Know Your Software Premium
Do you know your genealogy software backward and forward, or do you just input data and call it a day? If you're like me, you may end up missing a cool tool because you didn't read the manual. I realized this when my aunt Helen asked if I remembered...
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AncestorNews: Utah-Bound Premium
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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AncestorNews: What’s in a (Sur)Name? Premium
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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AncestorNews: Keeping the Stories Alive Premium
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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AncestorNews: Treasure Hunting Premium
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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AncestorNews: Historical Texts on the Web Premium
Where to find historical documents online.
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AncestorNews: Start with Small Projects Premium
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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AncestorNews: Virginia Roots Premium
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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