Familysearch.org website is one of the most used websites in genealogy. This is a big achievement, as I don’t see them put out big advertising campaigns like Ancestry and Findmypast. Familysearch website doesn’t have the slick lines and the shaky leaf syndrome. It also doesn’t have the price tag. It’s …
Ben Affleck has been in the news recently when it was found out that he asked for a part of a show from “Finding Roots” to be taken out. He was embarrassed by a slave owning ancestor. Now that everybody knows, he is happy to admit that he was embarrassed. …
If you are like me, whenever I have a question or my husband and I bet we both know something and argue about who is right, I go to google. I have yellowing dictionaries and thesaurus and a kids atlas that has never really seen the light of day. My …
I can just imagine the fire that engulfed 50 years of census records now. All that paper with all those people and their lives up in smoke. It’s so sad to know that in Australia between 1971 to 1996 census records were routinely destroyed. All those census forms filled out …
Pretty much all my family lines go back to ancestry in the UK. I think a lot of people would be in the same position. The only problem is that sometimes if feels like an alien world trying to figure out where you can find the records that you want …
Aunty Dot, she has worked tirelessly on the family genealogy for years and no-one gives her any credit. She tries to talk to the family about her discoveries and wonderful stories she has found but doesn’t get very far. She thinks to herself “If only she had someone like Jack the …
