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In recent weeks, we’ve spent some time examining particular surnames and their variants. We looked at worldwide and regional distributin of names and we tried to determine what is actually a “variant” and what is a mere mis-spelling. Having been through that experience, I decided that I need to have some more robust guidance on [...]
Last in a series–for now 1. Breathe . . . . 2. Do the Genealogical Happy Dance! 3. Breathe . . .heavily. (Take arthritis remedy). 4. Notify family. 5. Seek peer review*. 6. Publicize your research via blog, social network, etc. 7. Publish your research in a respected journal. 8. Revise family trees, files, websites, [...]
Hint: You’re Not Going to Disneyland! Next in a multi-part series As with a physical barrier, breaking through a genealogical “brick wall” may expose an entirely new landscape. The new landscape must be explored, analyzed, and documented. In other words, once the barrier is breached, the real work begins. If one realizes this fact early, [...]
Two of the leading members of the genealogy community and genealogy media, Drew Smith and George G. Morgan, are “The Genealogy Guys.” They have a podcast which this week features Janet Horvorka, the “Chart Chick,” and moi. These guys do great work and they turn up just about everywhere genealogical news is to be found. [...]
Fifth in a multi-part series I had hypothesized that my Gines people were associated with English-speaking people named Gines who came from the West Midlands area. They came to Virginia and North Carolina and from there moved on to South Carolina and other states of the Deep South, eventually winding up in Louisiana and Texas. [...]
MyHeritage.com announced Thursday in London and Tel Aviv the release of Family Tree Builder 4.0. The key improvements of the new version include a map module, a family toolbar with Family Chat™ and extensive support for albums to organize a family’s photos, videos and documents, the company said in a press release. Gilad Japhet, CEO [...]
Fourth in a multi-part series In the comments to the last post our friend Apple [her blog is Apple's Tree; visit it!] writes: It certainly seems like the right family. I’ve seen some interesting name variations but how did they get Guion from Gines? Or visa versa. I’d be very comfortable going with this. That’s [...]
Paleontology Genealogy is the science of moving from this————-> to this: without ever having seen one. During the course of my intensive Gines research, it occurred to me that putting the flesh on newly discovered bones without having ever seen the actual creature or even an exemplar thereof, is fraught with risks of uncertainty, ambiguity, [...]
Remember the The Wrong Longs? Third in a multi-part series One of my other great-grandfathers on my mother’s side was named James William Long. As with Richard William Gines, I set out to find the parents of James Long. That search seemed like a stroll in the park compared to this one! I quickly found [...]
Second in a multi-part series Here’s a synopsis of how I achieved my #1 research goal: finding the parents of my great-grandfather, Richard Gines of Shreveport, Louisiana. Bear in mind that eahcof these steps took months or even years to complete and some ran concurrently. Step 1: The Neophyte Phase. I was new to genealogical [...]