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Information Overload? Effective Project Planning, Research, Data Management &...
This morning I attended the session on Information Overload with Elizabeth Shown Mills. This was a followup to yesterday’s session on working with family, friends, associates, and neighbors (FANs),...
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Jacksonville Man Finds Relation to Charlemagne – YouTube
Jacksonville Man Finds Relation to Charlemagne – YouTube. I try real hard not to grumble about things on my blog, but I couldn’t let this story about a descendant of Charlemagne go. On what must have...
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Dealing with citations
The toughest technical challenge I have found with genealogy is citations. Creating good citations is not easy and it slows down the rest of your work. Yes they are vital to doing good genealogy. So...
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New York State’s Curious, Century-Old Law Requiring Every City and Town to...
New York State’s Curious, Century-Old Law Requiring Every City and Town to Have a Historian – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities. I learned something I didn’t know, that each city and town has...
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Determining parents through nearby deeds
Yesterday I went to the APG Discussion Group meeting at the Akron Public Library. The group meets monthly to discuss an article from the NGS Quarterly. This is a good way to learn to better read...
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Evidentia pre-review
I just learned of the program Evidentia, which is designed to guide you through the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) process. I just downloaded a copy to review, and though I’d give my thoughts on...
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King Richard III and DNA
Richard III The story of the confirmation of the discovery of Richard III‘s remains under a parking lot in England is all over the news today and is a great story. Reading the details it shows that...
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The reasonably exhausting search
I recently decided to try applying the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) to some research I was working on to determine the parents of John McKelvey (1789-1847) of Ionia County, Michigan. The first...
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Review of Evidentia
Evidentia is a different kind of genealogy software, designed to help you implement the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) rather than build a family tree. I tested the program with a recent line of...
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Reading Mastering Genealogical Proof
I picked up Tom Jones new book Mastering Genealogical Proof when I was at the NGS conference and started reading it seriously tonight. I’ve read through the text of chapter 2 and so far the book is...
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