AncestorNews: Caring for Grandma’s Wedding Dress Premium
Advice and online resources for taking care of old textiles.
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I'm not much of a cook, but I do love to bake. And one of my favorite cakes is one my mother used to make around the holidays. It's an applesauce cake made in an angel food cake pan. The cake is dense, heavy, moist and yummy! In fact...
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I know a lot has been written in the last year or so about the marriage of genealogy to scrapbooking. As a certified creative klutz, I've steered clear of doing much scrapbooking; however, a package created by my aunt changed that. Aunt Helen, my dad's sister, put together a...
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I've heard horror stories about avid genealogists passing away and their families tossing their many years of research in the trash. Say it ain't so! Clearly, those of you who are reading this column are the family's appointed genealogists—you're the ones everyone calls when they want to know...
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AncestorNews: Patience (Blast It!) Premium
For years, I tried without success to track down my great-great-grandfather, John Hendrickson. When I finally located his marriage records, I was sure that particular brick wall was obliterated. My hopes went even higher as I found information (thanks to my Internet cousin, Gene Bird) about John pioneering in...
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I hate to admit it, but my computer-phobic aunt is so organized she puts me to shame. We share a love of genealogy and family history, and often send one another photos, church records, marriage licenses, or excerpts from history books. Whenever I call her to check on something...
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Use portal sites to get to ancestral information online.
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Did you know that several genealogy societies offer "pioneer certificates" to direct descendants of people whose family settled in a certain area before a specific date? Some societies even offer more than one type of certificate. For example, the Utah Genealogical Society offers a Founding Pioneer, Territorial Pioneer or...
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