Category: Genie Blog
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Yes, there’s a ton of free records online at FamilySearch.org that you won’t find by using their Search feature. These records are primary sources like deeds, court records, probate, tax records, vital records, and the like that haven’t been indexed yet. Here’s how to find the records FamilySearch has for a given location, such as…
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The background Before Ancestry.com, there was Rootsweb.com. Rootsweb allowed you to upload a gedcom to make it publicly available. And you could do the same thing on the FamilySearch.org website. But you couldn’t edit them. Then, in 2006, Ancestry launched the feature allowing individuals to create their own family tree on the website and served…
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My thoughts on genealogy as a hobby Back in 1988, I started shaking my family tree to see what would fall out. I had no idea what I’d find, I was just curious to learn about my heritage. My curiosity was first aroused by an uncle bearing a Civil War-era rifle at a family reunion,…