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Free- Basic Family Tree Service --By on July 3rd, 2010

I just stumble upon a free service for those looking for a simple online Family Tree website. To [...]

French Canadian Genealogy Searches- Quebec Research Tip #1 --By on August 3rd, 2011

Finding “French Canadian” North American ‘relatives’ can be quite a challenge. My searches most often lead me to [...]

French Canadian Source Materials- Quebec Research Tip #2 --By on August 3rd, 2011

Canada has some of the world’s best documented family history information.  This is especially true for Roman Catholic [...]

Frieda Senger- Cyrillic Conversion --By on February 16th, 2011

As many of you are aware, I have been trying to decipher a Russian document that Soviets created [...]

Further WordPress – GRAMPS Integration --By on April 30th, 2010

With the latest release of GRAMPS (version 3.2.2) I have been able to more tightly integrate the WebSite [...]

Geneabloggers & ManyRoads --By on September 10th, 2010

ManyRoads is pleased to announce that we have been published on Geneabloggers.
It is our hope to have generalized [...]

Genealogical is Data Coming Online --By on April 2nd, 2010

We are very pleased to announce that our genealogical data is finally coming online!
Due to family concerns, not [...]

Genealogy & PC Operating Systems --By on October 18th, 2010

Which Operating system is best? Mac, Linux, Windows?
Well aside from the inaccuracy of the phraseology in the above [...]

Genealogy & Social Networking Technologies #1 --By on January 5th, 2011

Social networking (media) ought to be a useful adjunct to genealogy research. Or more complexly stated, genealogy and [...]

Genealogy & Social Networking Technologies #2- Twitter --By on January 9th, 2011

Surprisingly, Twitter has become an essential communication vehicle for me. And, no one is more surprised than I [...]

Genealogy Database “Tools” --By on January 29th, 2010

It has been on my mind for quite a while that I should share a bit of insight [...]

Genealogy Song #1 --By on October 10th, 2010

Genealogy theme songs? While seeking a song on Youtube, I came across  song that seems apropos to the [...]

Genealogy Tips- Backup! Whoa, it’s Free?!? --By on June 1st, 2011

It is hard enough finding genealogy information and losing it has always seemed like a bad idea to [...]

Genealogy tool reviews --By on January 30th, 2010

Based upon an incredible interest (110+ reads in under 24 hours is immense interest in one of my [...]

Genealogy, Data Quality --By on January 31st, 2010

Data Quality is the first in a series of posts on “Genealogy Gotchas”.
(I thought this might present useful [...]

Genealogy- iPad or Netbook? --By on February 23rd, 2011

Lately, I have gotten a lot of questions about the little computers I carry around to help with [...]

German Name Spellings --By on March 18th, 2011

For those unfamiliar with, or simply wishing to learn more about, conducting German/ Prussian genealogical research this is [...]

Google Search “Automated Tricks” --By on June 10th, 2011

Randy Majors has created a genealogy Google query tool that seems quite helpful. His search  tool attempts to [...]

GPS & Genealogy --By on October 27th, 2010

Should genealogy rely on GPS data?  When I recently heard the query, it gave me pause especially [...]

GRAMPS – WordPress Integration --By on April 18th, 2010

Integrating GRAMPS and WordPress is a very straightforward activity. Not a lot of special skills or tools [...]

GRAMPS review and decision #2 --By on April 14th, 2010

Based upon my decision to use GRAMPS as our primary genealogical database management environment, I have begun the [...]

GRAMPS review and decision #3 --By on April 16th, 2010

Today we have published three (3) branches of our genealogy; two (2) are available for public access.

Senger Branch [...]

Heimatsortskartei & a true history --By on October 2nd, 2010

By the end of WW2, the destruction of Germany was nearly total. Almost every city had been leveled; [...]

Help Needed? --By on October 16th, 2010

Sometimes we all need help. Everyone falls into that boat at one time or another.  As the old [...]

HELP: Deutsche Vertriebene- German Expulsions --By on October 25th, 2009

Hello Readers,
Because of the great shortage of information and histories associated with the expulsions of Germans from Eastern [...]

Here today…gone tomorrow --By on July 28th, 2010

Grab the data while you can.  I guess that is what every online genealogist needs to have as [...]

How-to OCR Documents --By on August 31st, 2008

As a Linux user, I have access to a tool called Tesseract for doing my OCR work.  This [...]

Image Search “Google Tricks” --By on June 4th, 2011

So you search for images as well, you say. I know I do. I find the search [...]

John Hall- Revolutionary Mysteries --By on July 23rd, 2010

I am currently working on a portion of the Henss family and am ‘visiting’ Virginia/ Maryland at the [...]

Joseph Deyo & Descendants --By on February 20th, 2010

The Deyos- 1800-1982 [written by Wilfred Frank Deyo circa 1982]
The writer, Wilfred Frank Deyo will incorporate -the following [...]

June 2010 --By on July 2nd, 2010

ManyRoads is pleased to announce that June 2010 was our busiest month ever.
We had 4341 unique site visits [...]

Look in a mirror… --By on April 17th, 2010

People fear the past… they fear their history.  I have had countless conversations with family genealogists who have [...]

Many Roads Theme --By on November 11th, 2009

Our theme song…
Blowin’ in the wind (or How Many Roads)
is written by Bob Dylan, and sung here by [...]

ManyRoads Improvements --By on August 1st, 2010

In an effort to improve the speed and performance of ManyRoads, we have initiated several crucial improvements. At [...]

ManyRoads Library Changes Underway --By on May 22nd, 2011

For those seeking source documents from former German areas in the region of West/ East Prussia I have [...]

ManyRoads Newsletter- 26 Jun 2010 --By on June 27th, 2010

Quite a bit has been added to the site since my last missive.  Rather than bore [...]

ManyRoads Sentinel --By on December 19th, 2010

Genealogy is a twitter (a bad pun, I know).
We have created our first twitter based online Newspaper (using [...]

ManyRoads Update --By on January 15th, 2010

A lot has happened during the past few weeks on ManyRoads.  In order to keep things brief I [...]

ManyRoads Update 27 May 2010 --By on May 27th, 2010

This post contains the content of the ManyRoads Newsletter:
Welcome to the first ManyRoads Newsletter!
First let me thank [...]

ManyRoads Update- July 2010 --By on July 30th, 2010

A lot has gone during the past month or so. Not only have we added a lot of [...]

ManyRoads Update- May 2011 --By on June 4th, 2011

As you may have noticed May 2011 was quite a busy month on ManyRoads.  It was the first [...]

ManyRoads Update- October 2011 --By on October 22nd, 2011

First off I want to apologize for the few month hiatus in ManyRoads Updates. 
By way of a [...]

ManyRoads Updates --By on November 1st, 2009

The following items have been fixed on ManyRoads:

ManyRoads Updates – Sept 11 2010 --By on September 11th, 2010

A lot has gone during the past month or so. Not only have we added a [...]

ManyRoads- apology! --By on August 18th, 2010

I apologize for the fact that ManyRoads was down this morning (18 August 2010) from about 0200 [...]

Merging Genealogy “Branches” --By on April 28th, 2010

Merging branches (also known as cutting and pruning) is something you will most certainly need to do; unless [...]

Milestone Event --By on August 1st, 2010

ManyRoads achieved a significant milestone during the month of July 2010. Over 5000 of you visited our [...]

New Library Additions --By on March 17th, 2010

Today we added a dozen+ new texts in our Quebec library.
I hope you find them helpful.  Please feel [...]

New Navigation --By on January 16th, 2010

We have just installed a new approach to navigating the ManyRoads website.  Hopefully you will find it both [...]

New Theme! --By on March 22nd, 2010

We found that our old website theme was getting a bit long in the tooth so we have [...]