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Digging up my roots!
Stories from an addicted genealogist
From Colonial New England to Minnesota, Norway to the United States..
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Ernest Loren Simpson
Ernest Loren Simpson – my grandmother’s father and my namesake (Well, his middle name at least!)
Susan Belle Stanwood
Susan (Stanwood) Clark Simpson was my grandmother’s mother, and the person whose roots I’ve spent my life searching!
Julia Christine Veland
Julia (Veland) Uphouse provides me with opportunities to research my Norwegian heritage! Her mother, Lisbet (Gravdahl),
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Don’t throw the baby (or the paper) out with the bath water….
I really enjoy finding stuff. I really hate filing stuff. (I believe I’ve mentioned that a time or two…or ten…in previous posts, lol.) Hence, I’d made (the unfortunate) decision to go digital in my filing system a couple of years ago. Of course, I kept all of the documents I had currently, as well as…
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Two Thumbs Up – “Genealogist’s Handbook for New England Research”
I received my copy of the fifth edition of the Genealogist’s Handbook for New England Research today, and have to say I’m impressed! When I originally ordered the book last Fall, I wondered if this would mirror the Handybook for Genealogists (a wonderful resource), or would it offer new content. (Surprisingly, I’ve not ever seen the previous four…
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Ancestry.com autosomal DNA test – Part II
Family trees are full of mysteries. The one thing we can be sure that we know is that there is a lot that we DON’T know! 🙂 That’s a good reason to have a DNA test done. Hopefully it will help link us to others who DO know something about lines we are researching. Sometimes,…
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My (free) Ancestry.com DNA results – a comparison to FamilyTreeDNA
It seems like an eternity ago I received an email from Ancestry.com offering me a free autosomal DNA test. (Still don’t know why I was selected…were all Ancestry.com subscribers offered the free DNA testing or only their most neurotic users that spend most of their non-working, waking hours searching family history?) I immediately signed…
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Excel, Evernote, RootsMagic, and my research log
After my first day at the Family History Library, I realized I need a major over-haul of my research log. For quite a while now, I’ve used Excel to plan what materials to research at a repository and updated the spreadsheet with what I’d located. However, I didn’t have a really good way…
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In which I confess my sins – Family History Library fun!
I feel like a kid that ditched church to go fishing. I was bad. I was VERY bad! Here I am in Salt Lake City, registered for the RootsTech conference, but spent 80% of my time at…..DRUM ROLL please….THE FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The library has been a place I’ve sought to visit for the last…
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Maritime Monday: They Came By Sea
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZKtBMd2KrA] The Maine Public Broadcasting Network has produced a wonderful series entitled, “The Story of Maine.” The YouTube video above shows Part I of Program 3 in the series, “They Came By Sea.” (You can download the entire broadcast here.) This was particularly interesting to me with deep roots in Mount Desert Island, Maine,…
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Riveting Results with Reverse Genealogy
There is a story behind each name we discover, each date we enter into our genealogy databases. As new genealogists, most of us began simply seeking those names and dates; however, as we grow in our research and learn the value of reverse genealogy (working forward to assist in find out more about the past),…
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Tech Tuesday: My Super Experience With Scrivener!
Growing up I always had pen and paper in hand. I’d sketch out newspaper templates, and would write amusing articles for my family’s enjoyment. As I grew older, the pen was replaced by a typewriter. In my Sophomore year at Elsinore Union High School, I was given the opportunity to write for The Rancho News,…
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The Ennis and Fleming Families
When my Daddy died on June 23, 2010, I wrote a tribute to him which you can find here. He was not my biological father, but very few people knew that – he loved me as though I was his own, and I adored him. He was a kind, quiet person – but hysterically funny with…
Lauren Rogers
Addicted Genealogist
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