Genealogy

Warning: Work In Progress   I wanted to capture links. In general, I have entered just enough of the familytree into an internet tool, to get the tool to give me information.  Familysearch grew my tree using census records. :) FamilytreeDNA has pushed tree maintenance to MyHeritage.MyHeritage permitted me to upload a gedcom. Now it tells me of smart matches with familysearch and the tree based on the uploaded gedcom, which was scraped 4 up and 4 down from familysearch some time ago, but you have to pay. :(  Ancestry records are payfor/library - I don't really recall setting it up. I "inherited" some family papers, including adoption papers. Since somebody could not find adoption records, they documented the assumption that the name change was unofficial. Found it, attached to the mother in findagrave. I have sent the person an email (it bounced). I forwarded to the owner of the grave. I also put a flower on the grave with a note. Is this something I would think to lo...

A limited time offer for newspapers.com  was publicized from https://genealogybargains.com/ and its related facebook page.  Do Over Let me backtrack a moment. I had found a cheat sheet for citations  that cited the page above. As I had recently "started over" digitally, trying to record sources this time, I found myself intrigued by https://genealogybargains.com/genealogy-do-over-start-here/ I hoped to gain some insight from a professional that actually gave some thought to the subject. It describes 12 steps (and suggests you take a week for each). It had a facebook group. The reason I go through this is to get to my new acronym, BSO. Please bear with my notes and introspection. The sections immediately below are  based on  series of facebook posts as I started going through the material. Like most things genealogy, they are a work in progress. Watch upcoming blogs. Golden rules: I've been working on citing my sources. I see I can do better with dates of my eff...