In an effort to collate and make available some basic, albeit randomly structured, coaching, this page presents posts I have written on issues involving genealogy and genealogy related tools/technologies.
Like many of you, I enjoy sharing my thoughts, ideas, and lessons-learned in the hopes that they might be useful. The process of writing things down also helps me remember things- and I can use a lot of help in that arena! I also hope these thoughts might save you, our reader, a bit of time! Having said that I have to emphasize, I can make no guarantees (expressed or implied)!
I do, however, hope you find these articles to be a useful adjunct in your genealogical efforts. If there are topics you wish to see here, please use our contact page to let me know.
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Search Tricks & Tips:
- Another Mocavo offering
- Another perspective on Ancestry hints
- Google Search “Tricks & Tips”
- Google Search “Automated Tricks”
- Image Search “Google Tricks”
- Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
- Mocavo Genealogy Search (Free)
- Polish Archives
- Searching for Texts (online)
- The best non-genealogy genealogy places #1
- The best non-genealogy genealogy places #2
- Where & how to search the Internet
- WW1 German Casualty Lists – 1.WK Armee-Verordnungsblatt Verlustliste
German Genealogy Pointers:
- “Our” Mennonite Churches in Europe
- “Un-German” German Names
- Automated Translations
- Conducting Better German Research
- Danzig- Westpreussen (West Prussia) Heimatortskartei
- Eastern Germans, a cold case?
- Finding Former Eastern German Place Names
- Finding German Genealogy Data
- Finding German War Dead
- German Expulsions & the Diaspora
- German Genealogy Research Aids
- German Name Spellings
- Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
- Mennonite/Amish/Anabaptist Research Materials
- Swiss- Alsatian Mennonite- Anabaptist Research
- The Former German Provinces & Missing Persons Search
- Understanding the German Past
Quebec Genealogy Pointers:
- “Dit” Names
- French Canadian Genealogy Searches- Quebec Research Tip #1
- French Canadian Source Materials- Quebec Research Tip #2
- Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
- Quebec Genealogical Tutorial
- Québec Historical Documents & Newspapers- Quebec Research Tip #3
- Rituel du Diocèse de Québec
- Using Cyprien Tanguay’s texts…
Ancestry.com Pointers:
- Ancestry Downloads
- Ancestry Hints!
- Another perspective on Ancestry hints
- Are you serious?
- Cleanup from Ancestry.com #1
- Cleanup from Ancestry.com #2
- Creating a stable FTM 2012 Installation
- FTM 2012 Surprises?!?
- Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
The whole collection of Tips, Opinions & Pointers:
- “Dit” Names
- “Document” Enhancement
- “Our” Mennonite Churches in Europe
- “Photo” Enhancements
- “Un-German” German Names
- 15 Excellent & FREE Genealogy Sites
- 20-20 Hindsight
- 50+ Free Genealogy Courses
- 9 October Presentation- Parker Genealogical Society
- A Banner Day!
- A Genealogy Q&A site
- A Great Find…
- A new ethnic group? Prussian-Quebecois.
- Anabaptist-Mennonite DNA project participation
- Ancestor Approved Award
- Ancestry Downloads
- Ancestry Hints!
- Another Genealogy Adventure…. part 1
- Another Genealogy Adventure…. part 2
- Another Mocavo offering
- Another perspective on Ancestry hints
- Are you serious?
- Assumptions & Genealogy
- Attribution
- Automated Translations
- Be honest
- Before you start
- Castle Rock Genealogical Society Presentation
- Changes on ManyRoads
- Civility and history
- Cleanup from Ancestry.com #1
- Cleanup from Ancestry.com #2
- Conducting Better German Research
- Copyright, copyleft, protect your stuff…
- Creating a stable FTM 2012 Installation
- Danzig- Westpreussen (West Prussia) Heimatortskartei
- Data Cleanup Tip #1
- Data gathering tools (new, to me)
- Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 1
- Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 2
- Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 3
- Eastern Germans, a cold case?
- Family Echo
- Family friends…
- Family Tree Maker 2012 running on a Virtual Machine & Win XP
- Find your friends
- Finding “lost” family
- Finding Former Eastern German Place Names
- Finding Genealogy Software (more) pointers…
- Finding German Genealogy Data
- Finding German War Dead
- French Canadian Genealogy Searches- Quebec Research Tip #1
- French Canadian Source Materials- Quebec Research Tip #2
- Frieda Senger- Cyrillic Conversion
- FTM 2012 Surprises?!?
- Further WordPress – GRAMPS Integration
- Geneabloggers & ManyRoads
- Genealogy & Data Management
- Genealogy & PC Operating Systems
- Genealogy & Social Networking Technologies #1
- Genealogy & Social Networking Technologies #2- Twitter
- Genealogy & Social Networking Technologies #3- facebook
- Genealogy & The Rule of Six
- Genealogy Database “Tools”
- Genealogy of Canada
- Genealogy Tips- Backup! Whoa, it’s Free?!?
- Genealogy within context
- Genealogy, Data Quality
- Genealogy- iPad or Netbook?
- GenerousGenealogists, RAOGK & me
- Genetic Genealogy
- German Expulsions & the Diaspora
- German Genealogy Research Aids
- German Name Spellings
- Google Search “Tricks & Tips”
- Google Search “Automated Tricks”
- GPS & Genealogy
- GRAMPS – WordPress Integration
- GRAMPS review and decision #1
- GRAMPS review and decision #2
- GRAMPS review and decision #3
- Help Needed?
- Here today…gone tomorrow
- Hermann Hesse & Genealogy
- Image Search “Google Tricks”
- It is not a contest
- Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
- Look in a mirror…
- ManyRoads Library Changes Underway
- Mennonite/Amish/Anabaptist Research Materials
- Merging Genealogy “Branches”
- Mocavo Genealogy Search (Free)
- New FamilySearch Film Ordering
- No historical records?
- No name, no date… #1
- No name, no date… #2
- Norwegian Research
- On the “Vertreibung”, Expulsions, and Hope
- Outside the box
- Parker Genealogical Society
- Pick wisely
- Polish Archives
- Pre-WW2 Maps of Poland & the former German East
- Presenting family genealogies on the web
- Prussian Mennonite Research Materials
- Public speaking?
- Publish your information
- Quebec Genealogical Tutorial
- Quebec Genealogy
- Québec Historical Documents & Newspapers- Quebec Research Tip #3
- Recent relatives
- Remote Desktop Sharing (Free)
- Revised Tips & Pointers
- Rituel du Diocèse de Québec
- Say it ain’t so…
- Searching for Texts (online)
- Share with Gendex
- Sharing & more
- Sharing Notes, Tasks, Todos
- Simple Gifts…
- Site transfer, phase 1 – completed
- Source Materials- Familysearch & Family History
- Source Materials- It’s almost magic!
- Source Materials- Microfilm Tips & Warnings
- Survey of Genealogy Related Technologies
- Swiss- Alsatian Mennonite- Anabaptist Research
- Technology Advantages
- Telling a story and social media…
- The best non-genealogy genealogy places #1
- The best non-genealogy genealogy places #2
- The best non-genealogy genealogy places #3
- The Former German Provinces & Missing Persons Search
- The problem of Literacy & Language -part 1
- The value of time
- Tools for date calculations
- Traditional Genealogical Sources #1
- Understanding the German Past
- Using Cyprien Tanguay’s texts…
- Using Mendeley &tc. for Genealogy Research
- We are all royal!
- We are… inter-related!
- What Genealogy Tool is best?
- What’s in a name?
- When considering new Genealogy Software…
- Where & how to search the Internet
- Whoa, Backup!
- Winnie the Pooh on Genealogy #1
- Winnie the Pooh on Genealogy #2
- WW1 German Casualty Lists – 1.WK Armee-Verordnungsblatt Verlustliste
- Zotero and genealogy
- Genealogy & Social Networking Technologies #4- LinkedIn