by AGS Member Lark M. Robart First, I want to give a shout-out to our upcoming program on military records by AGS President Philip Spivey. The topic is Military Records: A Wealth of Information on Those Who Served. Watch your email in the next few days for the Zoom link. The program is scheduled for
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by AGS Member Lark M. Robart Recently, I’ve been hearing and reading that it’s possible to find family-related items on eBay just by searching either on a surname or location. So I thought I’d give it a try. I didn’t have much luck searching on surnames but I did have some luck searching on place names.
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by AGS Member Laura Weber Like so many at the start of the pandemic, my time at work was a little less while my time at home was a great deal more – a genealogy hobbyist’s dream! I started to explore opportunities to expand my training and education and in addition to countless webinars, I
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by Lark M. Robart Over the last few years, since I “retired” and have more time for reading, I’ve learned that historical nonfiction books are a great way to help fill in the blanks of our ancestor stories. Let me give you a few examples. The Conquest of the Missouri by Joseph Mills Hanson My great
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by Louise Rosett For the May Quarterly, I wrote an article describing how Visual Phasing could help you learn which grandparent contributed their DNA to each segment of your chromosomes. I have spent several months working on Phasing my chromosomes. I tried phasing using the semi-automated method demonstrated by Andy Lee on YouTube. I also
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by Philip Spivey If you’re like me, a desk filled with scratch pads, spiral notebooks and information scrawled on bits of paper is a familiar sight. Let’s face it, we are constantly jotting things down in our search for ancestors. It might be a footnote reference or index listing we hope will lead us to
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by AGS Member Michael Wilson If you’re like me, you don’t know that much about Mexican Independence, even though we live just a few hundred miles from Mexico and in a place that was part of Mexico until the mid-1800s. Briefly, Mexico had an 11-year War of Independence. It started on September 16, 1810 (considered
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by AGS Member Lark M. Robart Inspired by an article entitled “Then and Now Photos Show People as Young Adults and at 100 Years Old”, I took a look at some of the family photos in my own collection to see if I could assemble a similar group. The results were somewhat surprising. Most noteworthy . . .
by AGS Member Tiffani Loiacono As Halloween approaches, so does the number of cemetery walking tours. Most of us are staying socially distanced and usually that would mean no tours, but this year there have been a lot of virtual options being advertised. If you have never been on a cemetery walking tour, they can
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