Category: Books and Tools

At the 2018 RootsTech Conference, I spoke on the issue of diversity in family history technology – specifically looking at the tools we use to find and share family history. However, in order to ensure that this important topic continues to be discussed, and for the benefit of all those…

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Each election cycle reminds me that our ancestors own political dealings can be a good source of information about them. Unfortunately, there is no wide scale census of political party affiliations for a genealogist to examine. While names can become clues (as a child named “Andrew Jackson” might indicate the family…

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