I’ll admit it.  I have control issues.  I need to feel like I’m in control of my environment.   How did I get to this place?  I can “trace” my hang-ups back to the time I was ten years old and my family and I were robbed at gunpoint in our home.  The robbers beat up [...]

What can I say?  It’s January and every where I go I see exercise equipment, workout DVDs, weights, diet plans, etc.   After the Christmas fifteen shows up in the mirror on New Year’s Day, many of us are motivated to try to drop at least ten of those unwanted newcomers.  Since you may have the [...]

Once you’ve decided on a software program and you have your data in a previous program, how do you transfer your data from the old to the new?  Start a new tree in the software you plan to use for your cleaned up database.  You have two options:  1.  Export a GEDCOM file from your [...]

One year Bruce and I traveled to Ireland for genealogy research.  We spent a day in Dublin, then headed west to County Galway.  My second-great grandmother, Sarah Mullin, was from Tuam.  Once in America, she married Thomas Francis Farrell, a tailor, son of Michael Farrell.  His naturalization papers say he is from County Galway, but [...]

If you’ve been frustrated by not being able to update Family Tree Maker from any electronic device, Ancestry has come up with a solution for you!  It’s called Family Tree Maker 2012 with TreeSync.  Other features of Family Tree Maker 2012 with TreeSync include: Blended family view which accommodates many families today Improved smart stories [...]

I love the hunt.  I love finding the clues and chasing them down.  I love the thrill of finding the answer.  Research logs and report writing, on the other hand, are not so much fun, but an essential part of successful research.  You need the log to know the sources searched.  The report sums up [...]

I’ll bet some of you have set your research in a pile, switched gears to work on a more pressing assignment,  pushed the stack into a corner, and it sat there, sometimes for a long time.  When you finally picked up the pile to continue your research, it was hard to find the document you [...]