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Eileen's hubpages on genealogy

Years ago we had very little help in tracing our family trees. They had to send applications by snail mail. Waiting weeks or even months for a reply, only to find that they were not part of their family line...

8 comments    genealogy family trees
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Free Genealogy Family Tree

  Free genealogy family tree, is often searched and found on this here thing we call the internet.  This is the second in my series in how to search for things online.  The poor misunderstood search...

0 comments    genealogy family tree pedigree
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Free Birth Records

I’m planning a series of Hub Pages dealing with the difficulties in finding free genealogical information on the internet. There is plenty of free information available, but when people who are not used to...

2 comments    vital records genealogy research
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Genealogy: FamilyInsight-- A Software Review

I am 48 years old and I always thought that I would get started on my genealogy "sometime in my retirement years". But I also had a lot of other ideas about what I wanted to do in my retirement years and in...

1 comment    family genealogy family tree
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I Am A Princess and A Shiny Penny

I ran into a shiny copper penny from Cubero, New Mexico, long before it became a ghost town. Her strong cultural identity is something we all can learn from, even though she left us in 2008.

39 comments    money indian genealogy
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Do You Know Your Family

Here I am, 37 years into my life, yet I have never met my father. During the early years of my life my grandfather filled the role, and I must say he was an amazing man. He treated me like I was the only...

1 comment    life family genealogy
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Genealogical Research

Organization For Your Genealogical Research When you are tracking down your roots, you probably use the Internet for most of your research, at least when you get started. There are some things that can not...

0 comments    family genealogy family roots
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Searching Public Records Part II - Genealogy

Genealogy allows family members to share family history from generation to generation, and is second only to bird watching as a hobby among Americans.  It is a giant, painstaking puzzle, with answers in the...

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How to grow a "family tree"

My father is one of the most well-known Scandinavian genealogists in the Pacific Northwest U.S. I grew up going with him to help others "find their roots" and doing some research on our own family tree. ...

3 comments    advice family how to
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Rules of Thumb For Successful Research

To avoid climbing the wrong branch on your family tree for months or even years, there are a few rules of thumb long-time genealogists follow faithfully for successful research: There's a grain of truth in...

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