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Famous Family – Captain James Gallagher

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Family Story Teller

I first started researching my family tree shortly after my grandfather passed away. I went to my husband’s family reunion and they passed out a binder including all sorts of interesting information, historical documents, pictures and stories about their family. I studied that binder and ended up knowing more about my husband’s family than he did. I knew about all the people in his family tree and the stories helped me to feel like I actually knew them.  I felt [...]

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Genealogy News – Indian Roots

If you’re looking for inspiration or motivation to finally trace your ancestors and research your family tree, I found this article, “Genealogist helps pastor find his Indian roots” in a Tampa Bay Newspaper yesterday!  What a great success story!  He was able to trace his ancestors back to his Native American roots, as predicted from his family lore. Proof positive that we can all learn something about ourselves by tracing our family tree. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg [...]

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Family Tree

Is tracing down your ancestors and making a family tree something that you’ve always wanted to do but you’re just not sure where to begin?  The easy solution in family tree research is to start with yourself.  You are the beginning of your family tree.  This works out quite perfectly because we know ourselves right?  More often than not, we know our parents information as well, and at least our grandparents names.  This where you start making a family tree. [...]

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Family Tree Research

The search for our ancestors can be such a rewarding experience and yet quite time consuming and frustrating. The question is how to trace your family tree.  Each new record or piece of evidence we find brings about new information about our families.  Finding a marriage record for an ancestor is quite exciting.  A wealth of information can come from marriage records including a spouses name, place of marriage, birth years, etc.. With the continuous introduction of more and more digital [...]

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