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Fat Tuesday
Fat Tuesday around here in Milwaukee, home to a large Polish heritage, is celebrated as Pączki Day. The most popular local bakery in the area, National Bakery and Deli, expects to sell 45,000 of them....
View ArticleThe Color Yellow
Even “The Simpsons” are getting on the genealogy bandwagon in their latest episode, “The Color Yellow” where Lisa traces her genealogy to try to find at least one noble ancestor. If you don’t see the...
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Now For Something Completely Different
With apologies to Monty Python for using their famous catchphrase, I present something to make my family smile during a sad week. Classic Dad. I was converting old home videos awhile back and also...
View ArticleYour Generations Project
I had some time at lunch today, so I headed over to the BYUtv site to watch an episode of “The Generations Project.” For people unfamiliar with it, think of it as a “Who Do You Think You Are?” for...
View Article99+ Genealogy Things
I’m going to copy Destination: Austin Family and update my 99 (really 104) Genealogy Things list. I last posted the list in January 2009. The list below is annotated in the following manner: Things you...
View ArticleThe Tech-Savvy Genealogist
Geniaus created The Tech-Savvy Genealogist Meme, I borrowed it from Genea-Musings. This one is more up my alley since I’ve been involved in technology since I was a little boy. The list should be...
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Pact With the Devil
Reading through historical newspapers looking for stories relating to your ancestors is interesting not only on a historical level, sometimes it’s just plain fun. For example, while browsing through...
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The 5th Middle
I didn’t actively think about this. It just popped into my head one day and after I looked into it I was pleasantly surprised. If my wife and I have one more child, making our newest son, Xander, the...
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Creating History
Besides genealogy, one of my other enjoyments is video games. For people who don’t really dabble much in video games, which is probably a lot of the genealogy community based on demographics, they...
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Visualizing the Tree
Now that FamilySearch Family Tree is live and they also allow other programs to access that data on your behalf, we’re able to do cool things with it. RootsMagic allows you to connect members of your...
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Where in the World Am I?
I ran across a website the other day called GeoGuessr that is basically a game that drops you somewhere randomly in the world using Google Street View. You then have to try to guess where you are by...
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I am a Cousin!
Photo credit: Deseret News AJ Jacobs made some headlines inside and outside of the genealogy community back in 2014-15 by setting out to have a Global Family Reunion. His mission is to connect everyone...
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Birth Location Pedigree
This little pedigree looks like it has been sweeping Facebook recently, so I thought I’d put one together on my family. I first saw it on my feed from Miriam at AnceStories. Click for larger If it’s...
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