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“Document” Enhancement --By on February 7th, 2010

Image & document restoration is key to successfully reading many genealogical documents. The source documents we have available [...]

“Photo” Enhancements --By on February 11th, 2010

Getting a good picture from an aged image is crucial to developing and maintaining a good family history.  [...]

“Un-German” German Names --By on April 13th, 2011

Last evening, my wife and I watched a documentary on Poland, it covered the Gdansk (Danzig)- Szczecin (Stettin) [...]

15 Excellent & FREE Genealogy Sites --By on April 24th, 2010

Numerous excellent FREE genealogy sites are available- probably too many to mention. Beyond the sites listed below from [...]

A good home --By on May 31st, 2010

Everyone one needs a good home.  Your family website is no exception.
There are lots of reasons to choose [...]

Alert! Chrome & Tweets --By on February 25th, 2010

Chrome, to my knowledge, does not ‘yet’ support reading DJVU files.  I have looked up and down for [...]

Changes on ManyRoads --By on August 12th, 2010

The changes are a-coming! Some of the changes to the site are fairly significant others tiny.  However, although [...]

Cleanup from Ancestry.com #2 --By on April 2nd, 2010

Ancestry files require a lot of clean-up before they are really useful or accurate.  As I noted earlier, [...]

Cloudflare & ManyRoads --By on November 11th, 2010

Website security & speed are crucial to your genealogy site. Like most websites, genealogy sites are under daily [...]

Conducting Better German Research --By on March 15th, 2011

Recently, I have received numerous queries on how to get started or better conduct German genealogy research.  Rather [...]

Created with Free Software #1 --By on May 30th, 2010

If you were watching closely, you probably noticed a new logo at the bottom on the ManyRoads web [...]

Created with Free Software #2 --By on June 2nd, 2010

One of the great strengths of using an open source (or I suppose for fee) web development toolkit [...]

Created with Free Software #3 --By on June 3rd, 2010

There are a fairly astonishing number of hidden and nearly hidden functions on good websites.
In communities communication between [...]

Data gathering tools (new, to me) --By on January 29th, 2012

As a genealogist that conducts much of his research on the web, good data and image gathering tools [...]

Finding Genealogy Software (more) pointers… --By on December 23rd, 2011

In keeping with the theme of my previous posting, here are some additional pointers to genealogy software and [...]

Finding German Genealogy Data --By on April 4th, 2011

So where are the best places to find German Genealogy data?
I hear this question, or something similar, often.  [...]

Finding German War Dead --By on April 25th, 2011

If, like me, you seek relatives who fought on the German side of a war, you might have [...]

Free Genealogy Forms, Software, etc. --By on July 21st, 2010

Genealogy Free Stuff!
Free Genealogy Forms, Clip Art, Books, and more

Family tree templates are only available through a few [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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; [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Translation function --By on January 15th, 2011

A new web-page translation function has been added to ManyRoads. The Wibiya bar, where our translation function [...]

Norwegian Research --By on March 26th, 2010

Norway offers exceptional internet research facilities for genealogy.
Although we have not been working in the Sivertsen family line [...]

Outside the box --By on September 8th, 2010

Genealogy is where you find it.
Most often those looking for their relatives follow the tried and true paths [...]

Polish Archives --By on July 10th, 2011

For those interested in such things, a number of ‘online’ Polish Archives have recently come to my attention.  [...]

Presenting family genealogies on the web --By on November 16th, 2011

Presenting readable, genealogical information, data, and stories is a complex challenge.  It seems to me that people’s lives [...]

Protect your stuff… --By on May 13th, 2010

There are genealogy thieves out there!
Because of certain circumstances as well as the nature of our information, we [...]

Rituel du Diocèse de Québec --By on May 3rd, 2011

If you are performing research in Quebec, the Rituel du Diocèse de Québec may prove useful in providing [...]

Scandinavia Research is underway --By on March 25th, 2010

I have begun in earnest working on Becky’s side of the family.  This means research in both Norway [...]

Share with Gendex --By on April 24th, 2010

Share your information! It’s a really good idea. Almost certainly someone out there is looking for a family [...]