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Site enhancements --By on March 2nd, 2010

Over the weekend I have made a few changes that “are supposed” to help make our site more [...]

Site transfer, phase 1 – completed --By on October 26th, 2010

Phase one of the ManyRoads transfer to Hostgator.com is now complete. At least, it looks good from my [...]

Technology Advantages --By on September 21st, 2010

Technology can and should be an crucial adjunct to your genealogical efforts.  As a matter of fact, I [...]

Technology for Genealogy --By on July 19th, 2010

Are you looking to establish a web presence for your genealogy work? Do you want to communicate more [...]

The best non-genealogy genealogy places #1 --By on March 6th, 2010

Some of the most useful genealogy sites and locations, often are not genealogical in nature, include the following:

Internet [...]

The best non-genealogy genealogy places #2 --By on March 17th, 2010

Books offer some of the best information! Personally, I find history texts and map books to especially helpful [...]

The best non-genealogy genealogy places #3 --By on September 5th, 2010

I debated whether or not this was the correct title for my posting but settled on it anyway!
I [...]

The Former German Provinces & Missing Persons Search --By on September 11th, 2011

If you, like me, research and search for family through the area of West Prussia (Westpreussen)- East Prussia [...]

Tools for date calculations --By on August 12th, 2010

Date calculations are quite useful and necessary in doing genealogy work.
If you are like me, I constantly need [...]

Traditional Genealogical Sources #1 --By on October 20th, 2010

What is a traditional genealogical source?  To me that seemed to be a good question. So naturally, I [...]

Understanding the German Past --By on April 10th, 2011

German Genealogy is not much different from any other genealogy. You really need to have a plan [...]

Using Mendeley &tc. for Genealogy Research --By on February 2nd, 2012

As I mentioned in an earlier post, recently I came across a VERY promising research tool to assist [...]

What Genealogy Tool is best? --By on May 9th, 2010

Many search but few find…
I think that old quote pretty much sums up what happens when searching for [...]

When considering new Genealogy Software… --By on December 22nd, 2011

As most of our readers know, I belong to numerous on-line forums and discussion threads.  Lately there have [...]

Whoa, Backup! --By on February 25th, 2011

Backups, file duplication, redundancy, security are essential dimensions of performing quality genealogy work; well honestly they are required [...]

Wibiya Bar --By on October 28th, 2010

Social networking is all the rage, even for genealogy. In an effort to try one of the [...]

WW1 German Casualty Lists – 1.WK Armee-Verordnungsblatt Verlustliste --By on July 6th, 2011

dlibra in Poznan is in the process of electronically disseminating German Casualty lists from WW1.  As of this [...]