I’ve been using Ancestry.com for book research the last year. It’s been surprising and fantastic. As a genealogist, I avoided it…
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Favorite Lines–and Why I Love Them
We all have favorite lines–phrases–that haunt us or echo in our mind. I’m recounting some of mine today and why…
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Research Frenzy and the Boys in the Basement
Examples of what happens when writers let “the boys in the basement,” help with their writing.
Take a Family Tree to Thanksgiving?
Rather than a side dish, I’ve taken a family tree to my family’s Thanksgiving celebration–several times. May I suggest you…
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Genealogy: Searching for the Posey House
While on my five-year genealogy hunt one day, I took my innocent children and niece on a search for the…
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The Importance of Research Discipline
I was a year or so into writing a detailed genealogy when one of my distant cousins challenged my research…
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