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Research Methods

Find Sources with Ancestry.com’s Explore by Location

You can discover sources of information about relatives you may not have been aware of. Ancestry.com has a feature called explore by location that will show you research resources by location. These resources can give you ideas about sources of information you hadn’t thought of or known about. In this video: Ancestry.com Explore by Location [...]

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Lineascope.com Now Does Parent Child Relationships

Lineascope.com has been updated! Here are the changes in this release: Parents’s can be specified in an individual’s birth event. Be sure to add fathers and mothers to the birth events you documented before this release. Parent’s names have been moved from the subject table to a new parents table on the individual sheet. Biological [...]

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Search Feature in MacFamilyTree 5.5

The last of the new features I want to show you in the recent MacFamilyTree release isn’t exactly a new feature. Synium re-wrote the search function for this version. In this video: Search in Macintosh Genealogy Software MacFamilyTree, I show you each of the four search screens (all, persons, families, and sources). I also point [...]

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Reunion for iPhone and iPod touch Updated to Version 1.0.1

iPhone and iPod touch genealogy app, Reunion update 1.0.1 became available in the iTunes App Store on April 27, 2009.

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Is that Your Family Bible on eBay?

The auction site eBay can be a great tool for locating and obtaining genealogical items. For instance, there are regularly family bibles for sale. Imagine a family bible belonging to one of your relatives being sold without you knowing of its availability! Don’t let that happen to you. Watch this video: Finding Genealogy Items on [...]

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How to Customize Your Ancestry.com Home Page

If you’re an Ancestry.com subscriber like me, you may have noticed that The Generations Network, Inc. have improved your home page. You can now move the content of the page around to put things where you like. They also created a My Quick Links box in the right column. This enables you to add links to [...]

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