I’m partipating in a fun genealogy panel on Dear Myrtle’s blog. I want to polish the first piece I wrote before sharing it on my blog, but here’s what I wrote this week. You can watch it here. My part is from 46:34-1:04 Rose’s Casebuilding Scenarios In this chapter, Rose describes two scenarios: 1. After a…
Category: General Genealogy
My first last day in Frenštát p. Radhoštěm
I woke up this morning in Frenštát, one of the ancestral home towns of my Czech ancestors. It is the last day of our stay in this part of the Czech Republic, as today we will travel by train to Prague. Of course I feel overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings, but I will only write…
Why it’s OK to include unsourced ancestry.com family trees in your research
http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/skbld135b.html Here’s an article that sums up my opinion on why it is okay to include unsourced family trees from ancestry.com in my research. Basically: “Effective family historians…exclude no potentially useful source, and they trust no unverified source.” USUALLY people have a reason for linking people in their online family trees. Maybe the reason is illogical, ill-thought…
Two Options: Find them, or have them find you
Whether your goal is to connect with living descendants of a common ancestor, or simply to continue to trace your heritage back further generations in time, you have two basic options. Find the people yourself, or have the people (or their relatives) find you. The first option, finding the people yourself, is the most traditional….
How do you distinguish genealogy from family history?
I wanted to share what I wrote in answer to this question. It was part of an assignment for the ProGen study group I’m in. We are studying Tom Jone’s new textbook Mastering Genealogical Proof. I think that it’s good to emphasize Family History. Everybody can participate, and their participation is helpful both to current and future…