An email from familysearch.org the other day sent me looking at grave markers for relatives that the familysearch site had collected in a slideshow. Flipping through these led me to the Sweet family and then to a couple of relatives …
A Bright Shiny Object That Answered an Old Question Read more »
It turns out that finding pictures, and therefore visual confirmation of beard vs clean shaven, wasn’t easy. There are more male (and female too) relatives that I don’t have an identified pictures of than I had thought. To start with …
How Many of My Ancestors Had a Beard? – 52 Ancestors #45 Read more »
Over the years I have written a number of posts that included the use of somewhat unusual sources for some of my information. I haven’t always highlighted the unusual source but more often just wrote about an ancestor or a …
Somewhat Unusual Sources and Why I Think We Should Use Them – 52 Ancestors # 38 Read more »
I would venture to say that in most family trees many or most of the women are found to be strong in some way or another. Many of our earlier ancestors were, by definition, very strong women both emotionally and …
National Women’s History Month–Strong Women – 52 Ancestors #10 Read more »
Having tested my mitochondrial DNA (on FTDNA) to expand my mother’s lines, I am in the process of doing a RootsMagic database to track those families and add evidence. As soon as my DNA results were posted in early 2014 …