Tag Archives: ancestors
Family Thanksgiving Traditions
As I sit back with a cup of coffee, my turkey stuffed and cooking, the pies cooling and my kids running around in their Indian hats they made at school, I started doing a post on the history of Thanksgiving or something because it seemed appropriate. Instead I kept thinking of what Thanksgiving and family holidays mean for family connections. Whether we live next door to our family or across the country, the holidays can bring us together. Share [...]
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Genealogy News – Farming Family Ties
As we continue into the twenty-first century, there is little doubt that things are changing. The economy is in the gutter and right alongside it are the housing and job market. One aspect that isn’t suffering is the price of rural farmland and its harvest. What this is causing however, is for the younger generations to sell off their family farmland, which often includes family ties going back centuries. ”Instead of digging in to benefit from the boom in grain prices, [...]
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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 I went to my husband’s family reunion and they passed out a binder including all sorts of interesting information, historical documents, pictures and stories about their family.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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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 [...]
