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Québec Historical Documents & Newspapers- Quebec Research Tip #3 --By Mark Rabideau on August 13th, 2011
Here are lists of Québec-related Online Historical Documents and Newspapers I have come across while performing data gathering [...]
Recent relatives --By Mark Rabideau on February 2nd, 2010
One of the great genealogical research problems, for me, is my recent relatives.
The folks I am refering to [...]
Remote Desktop Sharing (Free) --By Mark Rabideau on April 4th, 2012
For years I have had the need to share information, applications, and desktops across the miles. Just recently, [...]
Revised Tips & Pointers --By Mark Rabideau on June 23rd, 2011
For those of you who are interested in the tips etc. I have been writing, I have begun [...]
Rituel du Diocèse de Québec --By Mark Rabideau on May 3rd, 2011
If you are performing research in Quebec, the Rituel du Diocèse de Québec may prove useful in providing [...]
Say it ain’t so… --By Mark Rabideau on February 25th, 2010
Family stories are not always true. If you have been doing any amount of genealogy perhaps you have [...]
Searching for Texts (online) --By Mark Rabideau on May 25th, 2011
Finding obscure, out of print texts covering low interest topics is an essential part of conducting genealogy research. [...]
Share with Gendex --By Mark Rabideau on April 24th, 2010
Share your information! It’s a really good idea. Almost certainly someone out there is looking for a family [...]
Sharing & more --By Mark Rabideau on November 29th, 2010
Sharing is a particularly wonderful aspect of human existence.
If you have found ManyRoads to be helpful in the [...]
Sharing Notes, Tasks, Todos --By Mark Rabideau on September 4th, 2011
Keeping notes, reminders and tasks synchronized as I move from place to place has been a real dilemma [...]
Simple Gifts… --By Mark Rabideau on November 24th, 2010
Rejoice in your family, from where you have come, and all that you are.
We wish these joys to [...]
Site transfer, phase 1 – completed --By Mark Rabideau on October 26th, 2010
Phase one of the ManyRoads transfer to Hostgator.com is now complete. At least, it looks good from my [...]
Source Materials- Familysearch & Family History --By Mark Rabideau on February 22nd, 2010
Probably one of the most valuable primary sources of genealogical information today is provided by the LDS (Latter [...]
Source Materials- It’s almost magic! --By Mark Rabideau on February 24th, 2010
I don’t know how it happens but it does, at least for me.
As I noted in an earlier [...]
Source Materials- Microfilm Tips & Warnings --By Mark Rabideau on February 23rd, 2010
For those of you who have not used genealogical source data before, I can assure you this is [...]
Survey of Genealogy Related Technologies --By Mark Rabideau on September 10th, 2010
This is a copy of my Survey of Genealogy Related Technologies presentation delivered on:
16 Sept 2010 at [...]
Technology Advantages --By Mark Rabideau on September 21st, 2010
Technology can and should be an crucial adjunct to your genealogical efforts. As a matter of fact, I [...]
Telling a story and social media… --By Mark Rabideau on July 17th, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE&feature=youtu.be”
With the advent of Google+ there has been a lot of discussion in the genealogy world about the [...]
The best non-genealogy genealogy places #1 --By Mark Rabideau 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 Mark Rabideau 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 Mark Rabideau 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 Mark Rabideau on September 11th, 2011
If you, like me, research and search for family through the area of West Prussia (Westpreussen)- East Prussia [...]
The problem of Literacy & Language -part 1 --By Mark Rabideau on February 19th, 2010
Maybe your family is like mine. We come from a long line of hard working, salt of [...]
The value of time --By Mark Rabideau on February 9th, 2010
Time and patience are great virtues in life and genealogy. It is simply amazing how many things can [...]
Tools for date calculations --By Mark Rabideau 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 Mark Rabideau 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 Mark Rabideau on April 10th, 2011
German Genealogy is not much different from any other genealogy. You really need to have a plan [...]
Using Cyprien Tanguay’s texts… --By Mark Rabideau on March 7th, 2012
Over the past few weeks, I have received numerous requests for guidance on how to use Tanguay’s texts [...]
Using Mendeley &tc. for Genealogy Research --By Mark Rabideau on February 2nd, 2012
As I mentioned in an earlier post, recently I came across a VERY promising research tool to assist [...]
We are all royal! --By Mark Rabideau on May 3rd, 2010
Over the past few days my email has been clogged with questions about whether or not anyone- everyone [...]
We are… inter-related! --By Mark Rabideau on May 4th, 2010
Never one to leave well enough alone, here are a few additional excerpts of concepts and data I [...]
What Genealogy Tool is best? --By Mark Rabideau on May 9th, 2010
Many search but few find…
I think that old quote pretty much sums up what happens when searching for [...]
What’s in a name? --By Mark Rabideau on May 10th, 2010
This is a copy of my genealogical presentation I delivered on 12 June 2010 in Parker, CO. You [...]
When considering new Genealogy Software… --By Mark Rabideau on December 22nd, 2011
As most of our readers know, I belong to numerous on-line forums and discussion threads. Lately there have [...]
Where & how to search the Internet --By Mark Rabideau on June 23rd, 2011
This small post is largely borrowed from Southern Oregon University. Hopefully the pointers and links are useful reminders [...]
Whoa, Backup! --By Mark Rabideau on February 25th, 2011
Backups, file duplication, redundancy, security are essential dimensions of performing quality genealogy work; well honestly they are required [...]
Winnie the Pooh on Genealogy #1 --By Mark Rabideau on June 19th, 2010
It surprises me how much Winnie the Pooh knows about genealogy.
I came across the following quotes and they [...]
Winnie the Pooh on Genealogy #2 --By Mark Rabideau on August 5th, 2010
As I have mentioned before, it never ceases to surprise me how much Winnie the Pooh knows about [...]
WW1 German Casualty Lists – 1.WK Armee-Verordnungsblatt Verlustliste --By Mark Rabideau on July 6th, 2011
dlibra in Poznan is in the process of electronically disseminating German Casualty lists from WW1. As of this [...]
Zotero and genealogy --By Mark Rabideau on May 21st, 2010
Do you use Zotero in doing your genealogy research work?
This is a question I have toyed around with [...]
Genealogy & Social Networking Technologies #4- LinkedIn --By Mark Rabideau on January 26th, 2011
Unlike facebook, LinkedIn has been moving in positive and useful directions. To be honest, I have had [...]
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