No Passport. No Reservations.

I stopped living on a jet nine years ago and don’t miss the constant hassle of airports, hotels and lost hours from home and family.   The only trips I really enjoyed were those that involved family history research or visiting Disney.   Why Disney didn’t build a large complex in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, I’ll never know, [...]

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Lost In Google Books

I’ve delved into Google Books since the first day they appeared on the web.   Knowing that the collection grows continually, I set aside time every month to cruise the byways of the site looking for new attractions and new rare book shops.  Window shopping never fails to result in a ’sale’ during these excursions.   I [...]

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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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Libraries on the web

As we explore the vast family history resources now available on the Internet, let’s look at state and federal government and public library websites. These websites are often full of links to digitized records both in their own facility and in other public libraries.

The list below is just a sampling of family [...]

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