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More Online Courses From Family Tree University

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Family Tree University, or FTU, is offering more online courses for genealogists. They last for four weeks, and are instructor-guided. It is a convenient way for you to learn more about your favorite hobby – genealogy! Here are a few more online genealogy courses from FTU that are about to start. Exploring City Directories: How to Trace Your Family History will begin on July 9, 2012, and will end on August 5, 2012. I’ve never heard of a course that teaches this! You will learn how to locate city directories online and in archives. You will also learn the meanings … Continue reading →

My Family’s Link to the History of Valentine’s Day Cards

Sometimes, the place that your family calls home can have some fun facts associated with it that add interest to your family history. This is one of the reasons that I like family history books – they add depth to the information that is found in family trees. For my family, one of the fun facts about the city where my mother and father were raised as well as the town that they live in (and where I was raised) has to do with Valentine’s Day. Both my mother and my father were raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. My mother was … Continue reading →

Our Family Tree

I’ve never been very good at genealogy. I’ve always been interested in it and love learning about my ancestors and the trials they went through and the people they were, but there are enough divorces in the mix that it makes mapping out the family tree a little challenging at times. It’s hard to keep track of what goes where and who belongs with whom, all in all it’s kind of a mess. Luckily, I have parents and grandparents who have passed down their stories for us. Many of them have kept active journals of their lives. It is fascinating … Continue reading →

Genealogy Project Idea – Halloween Scrapbook

Since it is September, Halloween candy and merchandise have been creeping onto the shelves for weeks now. This time of year is a lot of fun, and it brings back a lot of great memories from my childhood. While I remember quite a bit about the fun things that I did on Halloween when I was small I can’t help but wonder about what my parents and my in-laws and other relatives did when they were younger. One of the great things about genealogy is that when you do genealogy as a hobby, you constantly get all of these fun … Continue reading →

J. K. Rowling Learns About Her Family Tree

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The author J.K. Rowling was recently in the news for something not related to Harry Potter. She was on the UK version of a popular genealogy related television program. During the episode that she was featured in, she discovered many things about her ancestors that she was unaware of. What she learned stirred up many emotions for the famous author. Discovering things that you did not know about your ancestors is exciting to genealogists and non-genealogists alike. People also enjoy experiencing this vicariously through one of the many genealogy related television programs. This is part of why shows like “Who … Continue reading →

Preserving Your Family’s Love Stories

Today I went out to run a few errands and I saw Valentine’s Day merchandise everywhere. I saw lots of pink, red, hearts, flowers, and chocolates galore. I am not sure if I had just passed by the stuff for weeks without noticing it, but today there was no way not to notice it because it was everywhere. Of course, since this is the genealogy blog, I mention all of this only because it caused me to think about the great love stories in all of our family histories that could someday be forgotten if they are not preserved. In … Continue reading →

You (Yes, You) Can Write Your Family History

Just as not all writers are genealogists, not all genealogists are writers. What, then, is a genealogist to do if he or she is not a writer yet wishes to write his or her family history? The first thing that you can do is to dismiss the idea that since you are not much of a “writer”, you cannot write your family history. That is simply not true. In fact, who better to write the family history than you? You are uniquely qualified in that you have done all the research and you know the information inside and out. Once … Continue reading →

A Few Tips for Writing Your Family History

If you are interested in genealogy, the idea of writing a family history has probably crossed your mind. It probably crossed quickly and then went away if your next thought was that writing a family history is a huge ordeal that would take way too long. You may want to give the idea of writing a family history another chance because there are many ways to write a family history, and a lengthy, bound reference book is just one of them. You could write a memoir about yourself or about a specific ancestor whose life you find interesting or perhaps … Continue reading →

Digitage Heritage Scrapbooks

A few weeks ago I posted about scrapbooking your old family photos and memorabilia. Today I want to also mention the idea of creating a digital heritage scrapbook (also called a digital family tree or digital genealogy scrapbook). A digital scrapbook is made on a computer using an image editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop or Coral Paint Shop. Items that can be made into a digital scrapbook include vintage family photographs, old letters, vital records, and heirlooms. Before you begin, you will need to convert your photos and memorabilia into a digital format by scanning them into your computer. … Continue reading →

Writing a Family Tree Book

There are several reasons that you may want to write a family tree book. You may want to include the stories you’ve learned about your ancestors while researching your family tree. You may also know that it would be a nice item to pass down to future generations. You could write a family tree book by simply creating a document in a word processing program on your computer and doing it yourself. This is very simple to do. Using your preferred word processing program, create a new document. If you wish, you can add clipart or photographs within the document. … Continue reading →