Today’s GuestBlog is written by Paula Hinkel of the Southern California Genealogical Society. Deadline Alert Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree 2008 June 27, 28, 29 at the Burbank Airport Marriott There’s still time to join us for Jamboree!  Don’t miss the largest genealogy conference on the West Coast.  Advance registration closes 15.  Of course you’ll [...]

Barbara Poole, who has contributed several articles to this blog in the past, presents today’s article. She offers her experience in publishing family trees on the internet. Thanks, Barbara! Should you publish your genealogical information on the internet for others to see?  I pondered that question many times before I submitted my GEDCOM to www.familysearch.org [...]

Cheryl Palmer asked me to post something she wrote to commemorate the first anniversary of my blog. Cheryl was the very first person to post a comment on my blog on April 18, 2006, the same day I wrote my first article. As the first person to post a comment, I think it’s appropriate for [...]

After posting the information on the Skowronski / Dymek / Danko gravestone in Notre Dame Cemetery, I received a message from George G. Morgan, well-known genealogy author and lecturer.  Many people are familiar with George through the online classes he teaches, his “Along Those Lines…” column, and the Genealogy Guys Podcast he hosts with Drew [...]

As far as I know, Christopher, my first cousin twice removed, is my family’s youngest genealogist.  He started researching his ancestry when he was about 9 years old, and now that he’s in high school he’s become quite an accomplished genealogist.  He wrote an article for this blog explaining how he got involved in researching [...]

At the September meeting of my local genealogy society, I brought some magazines I had received free from the FGS (Federation of Genealogical Societies) Conference held in August, in Boston for 4 days.  All 4 magazines were current editions and were familiar to me, but none of which I subscribe to.  Some of the club [...]