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1. Geneology Wouldn't it be fantastic to find your family roots? Are you feeling alone and want to find out who those people you call "family" and "ancestors" truly were? Just who ARE your ancestors? Well, you are about to go down the halls of genealogy! There a...
2. Border Reiver Families Have you traced your family history? Do you know the origin of your name? Have you checked the genealogy of your family tree? If you can find your family name on the map below then your ancestors were probably Reiver's, one of the clans that roame...
3. How to Begin Your Genealogy Research Doing genealogical research - tracing your roots, or building your family tree - is an exciting and fulfilling project. There's no one "right way" to get started, but in this lens I'll share my ideas, lots of resources, and the tools that have worked...
4. How To Do Your Family History Research For Free If you want to start or build on your family tree, free research tools are the perfect way to begin. It is amazing what you can find out when you give your family tree a metaphorical shake and start to delve into the past. Le me share with you some w...
5. How to Write Your Personal History A personal history is one of the nicest gifts we can leave our children and grandchildren. Telling your story allows your grandchildren and even your great-great-great grandchildren a glimpse into your life. Write your story! One of the items I trea...
6. Genealogy, ancestry and family tree Discovering the family tree is steadily becoming a major internet-based hobby. Until some time ago, genealogy research was reserved for scholars who needed to have access to academic libraries and all sort of obscure archives. For lay people, those r...
7. The Best True-Life Family History Stories So many of us are discovering the thrill of researching our ancestors. I'm yet to meet anyone who didn't have a fantastic family history story or two to share.Some have even turned their years of genealogical research into published books. He...
8. Trace Your Family History Funnily enough it was after watching the hit BBC show and talking to my father after his heart attack that I decided to really go to town and discover as much about my family and their past as I could. It was a journey that at times I wished I had n...
9. How Not To Trace Your Family History In the UK Genealogy takes you on an amazing journey of discovery to learn who your family were, where they came from and how they lived. But how would you feel if you made a mistake which meant you were actually tracing someone elses family history? Recently...
10. Our American Dream Immigration and the American Dream (updated 4/1/09) As the centennial anniversaries of WWI and WWII grow near, and the number of people who remember those days dwindle, so too the human stories behind the most massive immigration of humans ever, and...
11. Paternity Tests There are many reasons why somebody may want to have a paternity test done. Whatever the reasons are, it is important to realize that a paternity test can easily be done in less time and for much less money that usually thought. This lens will introd...
12. The Morgan Massacre of 1839, Robertson County TX The photo to the left is one of my third great grandmothers - Stacy Ann Marlin (14 Feb 1819, Rutherford Co. TN - 23 Mar 1894, Waller Co. TX). Her family was a founding family of Marlin, Texas. She was married to William James Morgan (abt 1818, AL - a...
13. Phaup Geneology Phaup Geneology
14. The World of Genealogy Research After spending a few years researching my own family tree I wanted to "branch" out a bit.  I enjoy digging up new finds and not only strictly for myself.  I love doing research in general and jump on the chance to look up informat...
15. You are Cordially Invited to Share Your Family Legends Years ago a guy I was dating told me the story of his uncle who had a shrunken head of a Nazi soldier that he brought back from WWII. He was very proud of his uncle, so I was gentle when I told him that that couldn't be true. In the first place even...
16. Looking for my grandfather This lens was started in August of 2009, and will be the story of my search for information about my grandfather. As of today, I know very little about my grandfather. The picture is of my mother at age 15. She was the daughter of Ed Fuller and Zel...
17. How to Outline a Family Tree A family tree is another name for a pedigree chart. Pedigree Charts serve as a Family Tree Outline. With the pedigree chart, you can see four generations of your family at a glance. Filling out a pedigree chart is a good way to begin doing genealogy...
18. Writing Your Life Story Life can be so random.  We drift through our days with nothing significant to show for most of them.  Sometimes we get stuck in a rut and find ourselves doing the same things over and over again day after day after day . . .  It can se...
19. Ellis Island Ellis Island, now a 27.5-acre site located just minutes off the southern tip of Manhattan Island, New York, is likely to connect with more of the American population than any other spot in the country. It has been estimated that nearly half of all Am...
20. I Have No Idea Who My Mother Is The Mother of my mind.... The Mother of my heart.... I can only imagine, for I do not know who she is....