Journal
32 articles on finding ancestors, reading records, and keeping the story with the evidence.
February 10, 2023 · Tracy Hall
Do you have ancestors from Ireland? Did they own land or were they tenants or sub-tenants of the person who owned the land? Have you ever looked into Landed Estate Court records? Landed Estates were properties held by families who were given lands confiscated from the Irish by...
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January 20, 2023 · Tracy Hall
We spend a lot of time letting you know of new record releases on Findmypast. Why? Because they are where you go if you have ancestry from the British Isles. They have records that are exclusively from the United Kingdom’s National Archives and The British Library. Yet, if you...
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January 10, 2023 · Tracy Hall
Have you ever looked at pictures of your ancestors and everyone has facial hair but the next generation is clean shaven? Maybe they have waxed mustaches to a point or even a pencil thin mustache. Maybe a full bushy beard or just under the chin beard. Facial hair could be a clu...
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May 31, 2022 · Christopher Hall
Last year as I read from the journal of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society called Greenwood Tree , in the March 2022 edition called Opening Pandora’s Box: Your Surprise Discoveries , about folks who have found interesting people including criminals in their family...
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March 30, 2022 · Christopher Hall
For many years Tracy’s Fitzsimmons family had an annual family reunion. Several folks from the different lines attended regularly. So when Grandma Fitzsimmons passed away, Tracy didn’t want to lose the special times and connections. She decided to manage the reunion. She took...
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February 28, 2022 · Christopher Hall
We mentioned MyHeritage.com a few weeks ago. They have this great tool called Theory of Family Relativity TM . It uses several different family tree websites and builds possible relational paths between you, your ancestors, and your MyHeritage DNA match. It is very impressive...
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February 28, 2022 · Christopher Hall
MyHeritage.com has a cleverly named, very useful tool called Theory of Family Relativity TM . It is an automated, cross-service, DNA matching tool. You can either purchase the MyHeritage.com DNA service or simply upload your existing DNA data into their database. Ancestry.com...
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January 30, 2022 · Christopher Hall
Not that long ago, we wrote about our family history narratives in Family History as a Narrative and briefly in Family It’s What We Talk About . Not long ago I received a book from a friend. Our friend wrote a bit of her family history as a narrative in Over & Nether Compton S...
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