Category Archives: history

Martyr’s, Monk’s, Saint’s, and Mayhem

St. Margaret of Scotland (via Wikipedia)

Hello, welcome to my blog on Martyr’s, Monk’s, Saint’s, and Mayhem.

I have taken my time with what ancestors that I thought would be important to blog on via family history for me, and what to pass onto future generations of my family.

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Early Bird Registration for RootsTech 2024 is now Open!!!

RootsTech Early Bird Registration is OPEN!

Welcome to my family history blog! I’m so excited, I already registered for the online portion of the event which is FREE!!!

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Family Search LIVE Streams are going on RIGHT NOW

Hello, and welcome back to my Family History Blog. Today is the day!

3 LIVE Streams Will Be took place on the Family Search YouTube channel recently. (Click to visit and subscribe)

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Timeline of Thomas Howard, and Descendants

My 11th Great Grandfather, Thomas Howard (photo from Family Search/click for more info)

Hello, and welcome to the “Timeline of Thomas Howard, and Descendants”. I will be talking a little about Thomas Howard’s timeline as well as his descendants and when they came to America.

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Genealogy Event for March 2-4, 2023

Family TreeDNA is a Gold Sponsor at RootsTech 2023!

Hi, and welcome back to my blog. I’ve updated this post. If you’re new here, feel free to explore my blog, and you will find links to help you on your journey on just about every page if your new to this, and even if you’re not new to this.

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The Timeline of Joseph Ware Senior 1650-1711

A Maternal Line of Mine I am Currently Source Indexing on Ancestry

A Successful Day of Source Indexing

I recently had a successful day of source indexing and was able to put my 9th great grandfather’s timeline together, along with a good amount of sources to end the day with, making his life story come alive before my eyes. I thought I would share what I found and pieced together on my family tree.

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How I Started Learning About Certain Ancestors and New Discoveries in My Family History Via a LIVE Castle Crew

Photo by Vijay Aditya M on Pexels.com

This has become a literal dream come true for me! Never did I ever dream of learning about my ancestors on TikTok, nor did I ever imagine coming across a page with all of my ancestors and family history stories being brought to life, and even with LIVE tours to go along with it, and story time too for the Castle Crew Members!

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Privatization of Records in Organization, Is It Necessary?

My Father, Mother, and Me 1980-81 Taken at Olan Mills Photography

I recently started wondering if it is important or not to have all of my family tree public or if I should password protect a certain sections for family only. If I have it public, and it’s only unorganized screenshots, vital records and new findings I’m currently investigating, it makes my blog everywhere and all over, so I made a seperate link for that section, and, so I decided to privatize them for those that are family, extended family, and distant cousins that are also working on the same family tree so we can compare.

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Finding Advanced Strategies for Searching Historical Records

Family Search Now has Advanced Strategies for Searching Historical Records (click to learn more now)

I recently discovered that Family Search has Advanced Strategies for Searching Historical Records, even though I’ve been using Family Search for years I’m still learning. What they did was add a huge database to expand the search and amount of content that can be added for source indexing, which is great.

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My Immediate Family

My Parent’s and I

Welcome to my family history blog! If your new here, feel free to explore. Please take note that, even though I have over 30 yrs experience as a family historian, I am not a professional genealogist with years of experience, but now a newby genealogist with years of experience being a family historian.

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