The next piece of evidence in my quest to make sure that I had documented my own existence and was able to link back through each generat...

  It has been over a year since I'd posted any updates on my quest to begin making sure I had adequate documentation of each generation,...

Writing out locality guides as an aid for future research projects has been another project goal for my genealogy research this year.  Using...

  As I continue to work on the family genealogy research, a schedule was needed to keep me on track.  Usually, I'm working on the family...

Well I've not done a great job of keeping up with this blog, though it doesn't mean I haven't been working on my genealogy. Work...

  As I continue to update and document the sources in the timeline for myself and my immediate family, I'm also taking the time to add t...

Earlier I posted that the only fact cited for my birth in my Rootsmagic database was from a published genealogy of nearly 50 years ago.  Whi...

Building out a timeline for myself, I noticed that the fact of my birth only contains one source listed in my RootsMagic database, and it...

Whether you utilize the built-in features of your genealogy software or use Excel or Google Sheets to build out a timeline - the bottom line...

Begin with the beginning.  Work from what you know to what you don't know.   How many times have I heard or read regarding the genealogi...

In what seems like an eon ago, back in January 2020 (before the pandemic), I posted about how I had attended my first meeting of the Sons o...

As I mentioned in the last post, I've been renaming my digital files (both photos and documents) in an effort to reorganize and make sen...

  Ask any two genealogists how they structure the file names of their digital files, and you'll probably get three different answers.  I...

Hard to believe that the first month of the new year is almost over.  The beginning of the year is usually the time where one makes resoluti...

So often we project that our ancestors were nice people.  But what do you do with the not-so-nice in your genealogy? It's human nature...

Haven't given an update on my research lately, I'd fallen off keeping up with the blog.  If it wasn't for having the diary entri...

Last Sunday I spent the day in Darke County, Ohio, researching my genealogy and getting a history lesson from my dad.  After our day in Jay ...

Spent today combining my love of genealogy with interest in DNA by attending a great workshop put on by the Jay County Historical Society b...

You never know when "cousin bait" might be effective.  This week I received an email from a fellow Groendyke/Groenendyke researche...

Research has been limited lately due to work commitments and working on the getting our house ready for market.  On this Memorial Day weeken...