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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. 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...
3. Genealogy, Charlemagne & His Descendants Welcome to my lens! I have had a major interest in genealogy since my dad told me stories about the family when I was a child.  I was born a HOGG. This is my Mom & Dad (aren't they a cute couple?). In researching my family, I have uncovered th...
4. 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...
5. 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...
6. 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. H...
7. 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...
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. 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...
10. 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...
11. Shaking Your Family Tree - a Genealogy Guide Who were your great grandparents? What did they do? Where did they live? It's amazing what you can find out when you give your family tree a metaphorical shake and start to delve into the past. In this lens I'll suggest some ways to go about...
12. 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...
13. 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...
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. 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...
16. 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...
17. 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...
18. Finding the Needle in a Haystack: Using Ancestry.com's Census Records Ancestry.com is the internet's most popular destination for finding out about your family history. The site contains millions of records from every part of the world, and includes a search feature that makes it easy to find records containing your an...
19. Super Heroines: My Aunts My mother had 3 brothers and 5 sisters. A large family in any time. They were a close knit family and their motto, if they'd had one, would have been "Family First". But what made the women in this family so extra-ordinary that they could be called m...
20. Genealogy Research: The Best Hobby Ever It is exciting, addictive, fun and informative. Once you start, it never ends! Yes, genealogical research (what?) is the study of people's family tree. This is now a major hobby for millions around the world. Why? Perhaps because this is the best tim...