Celebritrees: Lucky Stars Premium
Does divadom run in families? It does for two famous pop queens—and they're not just blessed vocally, but genealogically, as well. First, I discovered that Celine Dion is related to Camilla Parker Bowles, best-known for her role in England's most-publicized love triangle. The ninth cousins once removed descend from...
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Breaking Off Twigs: How to Separate Family Trees Premium
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Common Family Falsehoods Premium
How do you prove a family legend? As with any research, you must know your subject. For instance, people often tell me they descend from George Washington. But this just isn't possible. While he apparently "slept" everywhere—if you can believe all the "George Washington slept here" signs...
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Finding library catalogs online is a big Catch-22. In order to find the catalogs, you must use the biggest catalog of them all—the Internet. Directories and search engines can help you find the available catalogs. When working with a search engine, take advantage of the Boolean operator AND to string...
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What’s in that Catalog? Premium
Here are a few tricks to help you determine how complete an online library catalog is: Do a search on the word genealogy. Do this only to see what comes up in a general, not specific, search. Look to see if the results include only books or if the entries...
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Everything’s Relative: Celebri-Trees 3 Premium
A Way With Women Many a handsome Hollywood actor is haunted by gossip about women from his past. But when you're talking genealogy, paying attention to whispers about yesterday's women can pay off big time. For example, as I began to research the family tree of actor William Holden (born...
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Everything’s Relative: Celebri-Trees Premium
Unburying the Hatchet Even if you don't distance yourself from a notorious relative, you'd probably have a hard time identifying with that black sheep. So maybe it's good that when actress Elizabeth Montgomery accepted the title role of the 1975 move The Legend of Lizzie Borden, she didn't know the...
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Celebritrees: Gere up Your Research Premium
Richard Gere's ancestry connects him to some interesting real-life characters.
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