Legacy Never Ceases to Amaze and Please

I often talk about my love of Legacy Family Tree. I’ve been a beta tester for products from Legacy and their parent company, Millennia for many years and know how input from users of Legacy has shaped the products we see today. Ken McGinnis, Dave Berdan, Geoff Rasmussen and crew [...]

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Danish Census Records

Staying with the Danish theme of an earlier note, it isn’t difficult to read Danish Census records if you understand certain key words. A number of years ago, a good Samaritan researcher helped me read the census records associated with my ancestors. She sent me a document that I’ve used in [...]

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Wikipedia and Dutch Occupations

Wikipedia County Lists
For some reason, I haven’t been using Wikipedia effectively in the course of my ancestral research. I haven’t searched the site for the counties of U. S. States.
Searchresults provide not only maps of all the counties in a state, butcensus bureau stats, history of the county, information about the county seat and [...]

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It’s Not Too Early

Have you started shopping for your Christmas 2008 gifts yet? If you want to give unique gifts, it isn’t too early to make a plan and start creating them.
If you haven’t heard of Canvas on Demand yet, take the time to visit the site and review their work. They transfer digital images [...]

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Zoom. Write and Learn

Google Earth never ceases to delight me. I use it frequently in my family history research to find cities and towns associated with my ancestors. It can be used to search the surrounding areas for cemeteries, towns and probable migration paths. In many cases, the image quality is so good that [...]

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