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1. Write Your Family Legacy The importance of family legacy can never be over emphasized. Do your children know their heritage? Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? What religion were they? What beliefs did they have? Did they fight for a cause and what was it ab...
2. How to Write Your Personal History Do you have a diary or a journal? One of the items I treasure most is my mom's diary -- from the year she met my dad. After they met, each page has only one word scrawled across it -- Happy. Every page. If you flipped through mom's diary, you would...
3. GenealogyWise Move over MySpace and Facebook. The newest social networking site to blast on the scene is here! The creation of Family Link, within just a few short hours, the membership has grown by several hundred. Geared towards genealogy addicts and family hi...
4. Trace your Dutch roots online If you have Dutch ancestors and want to find out more about them, you will be pleasantly surprised about the wealth of information that is freely available on the internet. In this lens, I will guide you to the best places to find your Dutch ancestors...
5. Life In My Grandmother's Time This lens includes my own personal opinions. It is based on my memories and times shared with my grandmother, when I was a child, growing up in Pendleton, South Carolina. My grandmother, Mary Grace Martin Ledbetter, born September 11, 1896, lived wi...
6. Genealogy Columns and Articles Genealogy Lens with a variety of how-to articles or sites which offer a daily, weekly or monthly genealogy column (with old columns archived). The question I get asked all the time is "How do I get started with my family tree?" This site will give...
7. Free Scrapbooking Ideas Scrapbooking is becoming an increasingly popular hobby for people of all ages.  Whether it be the young child creating a School Project Scrapbook or a gift for a family member or the Family Historian/Genealogist creating a Family History through...
8. Warning Signs of Pre-diabetes This lens deals with the danger signs of pre-diabetes. If you have any of these factors, you may need to see a doctor. There are at present 180 million diabetics in the world and the number is rising fast. Even prediabetes is very dangerous. The warn...
9. Kovacs aka Kovach -- Czechoslovakian or Hungarian? Recently, I commenced an online research of my great grandparents with the Kovach name.  I am relying on information from my maternal grandmother, who is now deceased, and from my mother.  As a child, I remember my grandmothe...
10. A Victorian Scrapbook of Newspaper Articles by George Burgess (1829-1905) George Burgess who visited America three times not only compiled his own scrapbook but he also wrote his own diary, poems, his religious thoughts and at least two books on Phrenology. In his diary he wrote about his life and his family; his children,...
11. Genealogy Products Reviewed As a keen Genealogist I know that there are a wide variety of Genealogy Products available.  Some of these Genealogy Products are worthy of further investigation and the purpose of Genealogy Products Reviewed is to bring you reviews of some of&n...
12. The Deshaies Family Name We are members of this old and noble Normans family.The first Deshaies in Canada was Pierre Deshaies de Saint-Cyr and he left Saint-Malo, Bretagne, on February 10th 1665 and arrived at Québec on June 16th 1665. He was 18. At the time there was 3,138...
13. Online Genealogy Resources: Greene County, Missouri I have gathered here the various online resources I have discovered in doing my own genealogy research for Greene County, Missouri
14. PhotoJournaling: A New Family's History free social bookmarks list... It takes some time to get accustomed to a new addition to the family. Everyone has been anxious for the new arrival, schedules have been altered, family members are suddenly thrust upon the new parents and there can be lots of stress. One thing that...
15. 23 And Me - Time's Invention Of The Year 23 Things I Know from 23 and Me 23 and Me is Time's invention of the year. 23 and Me is a way to access one's genetic information. All of us have 23 pairs of chromosomes. 17% of us are left-handed 44% of us have attached earlobes 88% of us have...
16. How to Order Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates From England The registration of births, marriages and deaths began in England and Wales in 1837. By obtaining a copy of your ancestor's birth, marriage or death certificate you will have a record that will assist you to go back further in your genealogical resea...
17. GEDCOM to HTML Converters **Make a genealogy website**  The History of GEDCOM to HTML converters During the late 1990s, many genealogists flocked to the internet to create genealogy websites in order to share their research and to connect with fellow researchers. A new typ...
18. Genealogy...Creating an Awesome Family Tree Creating a Family Tree is fun and easy. We have gone back to the 1600's with our Family Tree and learned so much great information about our ancestors.
19. Warhol ex Varchola Yes, if you are into genealogy and have done any digging into your family's ancestry as I have, you probably have found that your inherited last name was most likely changed--and possibly changed more than once!  For example, Andy Warhol wa...
20. The Official, Authorized, Aggrandizement Of Allan R. Wallace This picture is actually of lt.-colonel Allan B. Wallace, taken in 1898. I'm sure he is bald under that hat. I've shown the picture to close friends and they thought it was me dressed up in a period costume. I don't like labels, they are too convenien...