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OneGreatFamily.com - Connect
with other people who have already found your ancestors! OneGreatFamily is an
online genealogy service that actually connects the names that are submitted to
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by Muna wa Wanjiru
More and more people are interested in finding out their roots and knowing who their ancestors were, or they’d simply like to leave something for the future generations to refer back to. Yet, this may look like an impossible mission at first hand particularly if you have pretty little information on your […]
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Start by writing down what you already know:
Names
Dates
Places
Talk to your living relatives, find out the following:
Full names
Full dates-day, month, year
births
deaths
marriages
Places of residence
Religion
Social customs
Occupations
Education
Find out all work already done on your families
Decide if work is valid
Check for sources
Record all information
Record information on pedigree charts and family group sheets
Write […]
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If you have heirlooms in your home have you taken the time to record them?
Take pictures of each heirloom, place them in a book. A regular notebook will do just fine. Glue a picture on to a page, label it with the following information: Name of item (Grandma’s Quilt, Betsy Wetsy Doll, etc.), What year […]
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Filed under: Memories, Organization, Preservation
Despite the advent of computers, CD’s and DVD’s, the written word - books - are still enormously popular. Go to your local bookshop and take a look at the number of new releases. And what about the Harry Potter phenomenon? The thirst for the written word, despite modern technology, shows no sign of abating. There […]
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Genealogy Organization….can you say those two words together like that?
Some folks are naturally organized…everything they touch magically goes where it belongs with little to no effort on the persons part….then there are those of us who are a little lacking in the organizational department. It is those OC (organizationally Challenged) people […]
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