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“Dit” Names --By on May 4th, 2011

The use of Dit names in French Canada (Bas Canada) is both very common and confusing.  Currently, I [...]

“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 [...]

20-20 Hindsight --By on June 10th, 2010

Ah, the advantages of hindsight.  Looking back in time and regretting the decisions that were made, the options [...]

50+ Free Genealogy Courses --By on July 14th, 2010

For those wishing to learn ‘more’ on how to conduct Genealogical research, acquaint themselves with the basics, or [...]

9 October Presentation- Parker Genealogical Society --By on October 11th, 2010

I am pleased to inform everyone that the presentation on 9 October 2010 went quite well.  We had [...]

A Banner Day! --By on November 13th, 2010

11 months to the day from when we began ‘full-scale’ usage of WordPress on ManyRoads, we were graced [...]

A Great Find… --By on April 4th, 2010

One of the great joys of doing genealogy work is that every once in a while, you make [...]

A new ethnic group? Prussian-Quebecois. --By on May 6th, 2011

Everyone claims an ethnicity. Me, too.
So far as I  know, my sister and I form a rather distinct, [...]

Ancestor Approved Award --By on May 30th, 2011

Sassy Jane Genealogy: was nice enough a few months ago to give ManyRoads the Ancestor Approved Award. Sassy, [...]

Ancestry Downloads --By on March 12th, 2010

Ancestry download issues?? Like the rest of you, I need to download my Ancestry work files.  Also like [...]

Ancestry Hints! --By on February 27th, 2010

Beware the hints! I know, I have said that before but the entire prospect of using poorly proofed [...]

Another Deyo adventure! --By on May 12th, 2011

I guess I could have entitled this posting, out with the old, in with the new.  But as [...]

Another Genealogy Adventure…. part 1 --By on April 29th, 2010

As I have written numerous times before the Deyo portion of my family is a bit of a [...]

Another Genealogy Adventure…. part 2 --By on April 30th, 2010

To fix the problems, Craig and I devised a fairly simple plan.

Craig sent me the genealogical documents he [...]

Another Mocavo offering --By on November 3rd, 2011

Mocavo is embarking on a new extension of their already exceedingly useful services; one where they conduct automated [...]

Are you serious? --By on February 20th, 2010

Genealogical research always presents dilemmas. These dilemmas almost always have significant impact and represent important family history decisions. [...]

Assumptions & Genealogy --By on February 14th, 2010

Genealogy requires assumptions…
Over the past few weeks, I have been working on discovering (perhaps rediscovering) a family line.  [...]

Attribution --By on May 20th, 2010

Acknowledge your sources!
Today I received a note from a very important genealogy friend. She asked me if [...]

Automated Translations --By on November 20th, 2011

We all have languages we do not understand or read. Some of us struggle along in our [...]

Be honest --By on March 5th, 2010

Honesty is one of the most important dimensions of good genealogy and family history.  We all have backgrounds [...]

Before you start --By on February 21st, 2010

A very important dimension of genealogy involves history and context. You may already know that and if [...]

Castle Rock Genealogical Society Presentation --By on April 17th, 2011

Well yesterday was one of those wonderful experiences for me.
I had the opportunity to meet with and speak [...]

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 [...]

Civility and history --By on June 9th, 2010

Unfortunately when people are expelled from areas, civility is not always, or perhaps even generally, the rule. Such [...]

Cleanup from Ancestry.com #1 --By on April 1st, 2010

I don’t know how many of you, like me, use Ancestry.com as their data collection and ‘easy analysis’ [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Copyright, copyleft, protect your stuff… --By on January 25th, 2012

Assuming you write materials and you’d like to get protection and/or keep some credit for your work, here [...]

Danzig- Westpreussen (West Prussia) Heimatortskartei --By on November 8th, 2011

For those wishing to gain access to photographic images of the actual Heimatortskartei from the towns, cities & [...]

Data Cleanup Tip #1 --By on April 3rd, 2010

One quick trick I discovered for repairing problem Genealogy data involves using an editor -I like geany and [...]

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 [...]

Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 1 --By on February 16th, 2010

Beware of the free hints at Ancestry.com.
One of the biggest problems with Ancestry.com hints is in the [...]

Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 2 --By on February 17th, 2010

So how do you prevent yourself from becoming a contributor to the vast amount of bad genealogy data?

Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 3 --By on February 18th, 2010

Where does one get good genealogy data? Unfortunately, there is no single correct answer to this question. [...]

Eastern Germans, a cold case? --By on November 18th, 2011

Searching for missing or lost family members from the former German Eastern Provinces can be quite a challenge. [...]

Family friends… --By on November 16th, 2010

Who says genealogy is not full of surprises? Well, not me!
Over the past few months I have had [...]

Find your friends --By on June 23rd, 2010

Find your friends.  If you run a family history/ genealogy website, building associations and affiliations can be a [...]

Finding “lost” family --By on May 3rd, 2010

Finding a lost family connection can be daunting, exhilarating and exasperating.  The human need for connection to family [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Genealogy & Data Management --By on November 5th, 2011

Some of you may be aware that my ‘day’ job involves benchmarking organizations against various process and business [...]