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  • A Home Full of Heirlooms? How to Preserve Family Treasures

    Photos of meaningful objects woven into your ancestors’ stories help readers visualize their world. Upload the images to individuals on Ancestry.com. the Family History Stories of Your Keepsakes 10 Ways to Share Your Family History How to Write About Ancestors

  • Stuck on a Brick Wall? How Inferential Genealogy Could Save the Day

    I have an ancestor, John Townley , who migrated from New Jersey to Cincinnati, Ohio. Inferential genealogy , as defined on the FamilySearch Wiki, is “how family historians can accurately deduce ancestors

  • Ignore Your Audience When You Start Writing a Family History

    It’s no mean feat to write over 120 biographical sketches about my ancestors in one year. In short, instead of making progress in completing the first draft about my ancestors. I hope people who read about our common ancestors will understand their life. Would a public audience benefit from personal stories or the stories of your ancestors? How much social context does your audience need to understand their ancestor’s story?

  • How to Quickly Choose the BEST PHOTOS for a Family History Book

    If a photo features an ancestor, they will spend time comparing themselves and their loved ones to the You change your photo biography reader's perspective for everything from the ancestor's hair color, skin

  • A DNA Painter Tool You're Probably Not Using - Library of Matches

    shared segments, and any additional information available about the match, such as shared surnames or ancestral Matches on DNA Painter, and unlock the secrets of your DNA to unravel the fascinating stories of your ancestors

  • 3 Best Ways to Build an Accurate Family Tree on MyHeritage

    On MyHeritage, you can find Record Hints from an ancestor's profile page or from the prompt on the profile Add New People To Your Tree From Records After indicating a Record Match is relevant to your ancestor

  • How to Organize Genealogy Discoveries and Training Using Pinterest

    Templates -- Check Lists Genealogy Research Tips & Resources -- Research Methods -- Researching Female Ancestors Documents -- Downsizing Family History Sharing Family History -- Tips for Sharing Family History -- Ancestors

  • What are MyHeritage DNA Genetic Groups?

    Genetic groups won't necessarily pinpoint a certain ancestor. I have ancestors that were Mormons that migrated to Utah and Idaho. And I also have ancestors from England. Watch to learn more about MyHeritage Genetic Groups . They then looked in the cluster groups' trees to find the common place(s) among their ancestors. Results - Webinar Creating a Leeds Method Chart Using MyHeritage DNA Matches - Webinar Which is Better AncestryDNA

  • Why Downsizing Tips Don't Work For Preserving Family History

    Should you throw out a Family Bible that documents your slaveholding ancestors? Genealogist Societies State Archives and Libraries University Special Collections in the area where the ancestor Ethnic History Museums in the area where her ancestor lived or any ethnic history museum in the US.

  • Heritage Scrapbooking: Same Content, Different Layouts

    I can switch out the journaling, so it features a different ancestor's viewpoint. And voila! Have fun telling your ancestor's stories.

  • Show, Don't Tell: How to Write Effective Family Histories

    What I see today is very similar to what a New Mexican ancestor saw many years ago. With Your Senses In summary, when writing personal or family histories, we should strive to show our ancestors Try this technique while revising your ancestor’s story, and let me know how it goes.

  • What is a DNA Triangulation Cross Match on GEDmatch?

    How does a cross-match help family historians find new common ancestors to add to their family tree? cross-matching, as you evaluate how much DNA the matches share, you can determine the likely common ancestor Their common ancestor would be the 2nd great-grandparent. Stated a different way, our triangulated group may help identify how far back those common ancestors Explore the GEDCOM tools on GEDmatch Recreate Your Ancestor's DNA with the GEDmatch Lazarus Tool

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