OK, I gave into peer pressure and signed up for Genealogy Wise, the new Social network for genealogists. I gave a brief protest when I first heard about it. I didn’t want to sign up for yet again another social network. You can follow me on twitter, You can be my friend on Facebook, heck you an even try to hook up with me on Myspace. I belong to more… but as I am listing them I am starting to wonder if I have a life offline?
So seriously, do I need another social network to try to keep up with? I’ll be honest, the jury is out. I signed up for Genealogy Wise, you can find my profile at http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/DustyRhoades and you can be my friend there as well. I’ll hang out there for a few weeks and see if its a worth while tool that I recommend for anyone else to get involved with.
OK, so in the last post on church records, we talked about how to figure out what religious affiliation your ancestors may have had. I hope you have dug something up. Now that you have figured out their religion keep the following in mind. A lot of the religious groups kept pretty extensive records; others [...]
Were you ancestors a religious bunch? If so, we can thank the churches for providing us many clues to who these people were. You can find many rich clues here. Births, Christenings, Marriages, Deaths, Burials in the church cemetery. You may find your ancestors held positions in the church or maybe they donated land to [...]
I love the fourth of July. I usually get a paid day off work, I can generally get some good BBQ and I get to spend some time telling the rest of the family about our genealogy. They range from excited to just polite listeners. I hope sometime to get someone interested enough to come [...]
Welcome to my new blog! I am a genealogy nut and a Product Manager in the genealogy industry. I spend A LOT of time looking at new toys and tools for genealogists. I also spend my spare time dreaming up new things that I would like to make my life easier. I am also fairly [...]
