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Nov 11

Why Dig Up Your Family Tree

By: Wendy Jones Categories: Genealogy, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Uncategorized Comments Disabled

Why Dig Up Your Family Tree

Genealogy,Inspiration,Lifestyle,Uncategorized

The business of tracing your family tree used to involve driving to the county and town offices, libraries, churches, cemeteries, and state offices to dig through piles of old books and documents.

Oct 06

Family History Questions to Ask

By: Wendy Jones Categories: Genealogy, Inspiration Comments Disabled

The death of a loved one can be a very emotional and trying time. How someone grieves is as individual as the person. There is no “right way” to grieve; we must all take that journey for ourselves and let our emotions tell us what is right...

Sep 05

Footsteps to the Past

By: Wendy Jones Categories: Genealogy, Inspiration, Nature Comments Disabled

Today I took a drive back in time to walk among the fields that long-ago ancestors once walked. However, these fields were not youthful playgrounds for young boys to lose themselves in childhood games, but battlefields where young boys became men. As...

Jan 26

Ancestry Announces the End of Family Tree Maker Desktop Software

By: Wendy Jones Categories: Genealogy, Technology Comments Disabled

Recently Ancestry announced they would stop selling Family Tree Maker (FTM) desktop software as of December 31, 2015 and will cease support and sync functions as of January 1, 2017. Needless to say this left die hard FTM users reeling. Ancestry stated...

Jan 14

Contributor for The DC Ladies

By: Wendy Jones Categories: Genealogy, Lifestyle No Comments

Contributor for The DC Ladies

Genealogy,Lifestyle

I’m happy to announce that I will be a contributor for The DC Ladies lifestyle website. It’s a site for Women, By Women, About Women, Started by two Women; to Inform, Enrich and Inspire Women within the Beltway and Beyond. I will be writing...

Aug 15

DNA Testing for Chimeras

By: Wendy Jones Categories: Genealogy No Comments

DNA Testing for Chimeras

Genealogy

Like most people doing family research we have many branches that we are climbing to find those elusive missing family members or break down those brick walls that will tell us who the father of our 5 times great grandfather was. To aid us in our quest...

Feb 05

Why You Should Hire a Family Researcher or Genealogist

By: Wendy Jones Categories: Genealogy No Comments

There are times we must admit that we can’t do it all. I know it causes heart palpitations just thinking about it, but there comes a time when we all need to ask for help. If you have a leak in your kitchen pipes you call a plumber, if you need a will...