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Review - Avery Printable Tabs

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Keeping organized during your genealogical research process is a must. When I started my personal genealogy research, I was not very organized and it bit me in the ass later on. There are still aspects of my personal research that I must go back and fix. I have many binders and spiral...

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Two Wrongs Don't Make it Right!

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I had a discussion not long ago with a client and something came up that I thought all new genealogists should be aware of. I often see family trees posted online that 1) do not have any sources & 2) that have been copied from other family trees without sources.It is first...

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Back up Genealogy Data & Media life span!

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A few weeks ago I had my computer break down. Of course I panicked because I was in the middle of a bunch of work, but I could breath a little sigh of relief because I did have a backup of my working hard drive and data drives. It is still...

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What Can You Learn From A Criminal Record?

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When we think about our ancestry, we think that our family have been wonderful people throughout history, but never consider the bad. As a genealogist if we are to be successful in our research, we have to keep an open mind and it helps not to judge. I do not think...

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Trip to Oświęcim

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A Typical Polish BreakfastThe day began with what you may find as a typical breakfast, which consisted of coffee or tea, sliced meats & cheese, bread & butter, tomatoes, a vegetable salad,and some eggs (in the photo they are deviled eggs with a dill filling). Normally they will make an open...

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Using Indexes To Find Misspellings For Research

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Online documents are great, but if you don't know how the name was spelled, how can you search online? Online databases are indexed by human beings, not some magical force. People come from all number of countries and differences in their languages introduce spelling variations in official documents in addition to...

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What is a Repertoire?

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When we think of the word "Repertoire" we may normally think of a musical composition, but in French-Canadian genealogy this has another meaning.The English dictionary defines "repertoire" as a collection of works performed by an artist in his respective field. The English version of the word was taken from the French word...

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The 1940 Census Indexing

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The big news in the genealogy community has been the release of the 1940 Census. It's been two days since the first images for the 1940 census were released. From what I have read the servers that had the images for the first 5 states for NARA at Archives.com became overloaded...

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Who or what is Julian and Gregorian?

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You should be aware that all calendars are not created equal. Throughout history the calendar has been changed, adjusted and tweaked. The calendar we use today is called the Gregorian calendar and was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in about 1582. This new calendar was a big change from the dominant...

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Archives in Warsaw, Poland

dsc00586On the 9th of August I was walking around Warsaw with my cousin from Brwinow and I came across the most popular State Archive in Warsaw. This archive holds the oldest records. I had no plans for any genealogy research there that day, but I had to take a photo.

I had been in this area of Warsaw twice before, but failed to recognize it as one of the State archive buildings.

 

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 T he long awaited day has arrived. The series of books that are guides to researching docments in other languages is complete. For awhile now, the translation guide books for Polish, Latin & Russ...

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