Lacie's Genealogy Blog

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her blog this week - see  Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You  (posted 27 June).  2)  We will do these five at a time - Questions 1 to 5 tonight. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. 1.  Which ancestor had the most children? It can be a couple or a single person. My great-grandfather, George  P earson (1 892 - had 9 children with Gursie Gable my great-grandmother. (1 89 6 -19 63 2.  How many years have you been working on your genealogy/family history? I started in Oct-Dec 2016, so I'm haven't been doing genealogy for a long time.  3.  Do you collaborate with other genealogists on your family history? No. 4.  Have you hi...

If you are looking for free online historical books to use, Google Books is the way to go. What is Google Books? Google Books is generally a digital archive of books, newspapers,  encyclopedias, etc.  You can even view most of them for free. Using Google Books Go to  https://books.google.com/ You can search for a specific family history book, an ancestor, a locality, or a particular place.  In the example below, I searched my 3rd great-grandfather with the location he lived in most of his life. Use quotations around names or variations of them.    I see a few results of my ancestor. In the second result, it says a "Snippet view", which means only a tiny section of the book will be shown highlighted with the keywords you have used to find it. The 1st result it says "Preview" so, the book is available to read.  Some pages of some books might not be in the preview. When some books aren't available to view you can use Worl...

After reading Lisa Gorrell's post about her surnames , I decided I wanted to try it out too. My Surnames: Pearson Gable Harlan McDaniel Armstead Barton Rogers Rogers The 2 Rogers surnames my maternal great-grandmother, Lela Rogers married Earnest Rogers. They are not cousins from what I know of. (c) Copyright Lacie Madison 2019 All Rights Reserved.

Ancestry is replacing DNA Circles with ThruLines. DNA Circles will be removed in less than 2 weeks. I found out after watching Larry Jones's video yesterday. Update: His video is no longer available to the public. For some Ancestry users, DNA circles helped them break down brick walls that they have had for years. Personally, I have not ever had a DNA Circle since I have gotten my DNA results (Apr 2017), so I am not sure if the tool is useful.  In Larry Jones's video, he explains that his DNA circles show 32 matches related through his common ancestor and he matches 2 of them. ThruLines shows descendants from his common ancestor all the way to him. He matches 13 for ThurLines and 2 for DNA Circles.   In the past, I heard that people have lost some of their DNA circles, and have never gotten them back. Maybe that's why Ancestry is removing them? Maybe some Ancestry customers have complained about the product, for example not updating their cir...

(Updated 27 August July 2019) Thank you, everyone, for viewing this post. Everyone has a DNA match that doesn't have a tree. Don't get discouraged by this. There are many other ways to find that relationship to identify the common ancestor. A method I found very useful in my own res earch. T his method might not work all the time , but 95% it will. This was a session from Rootstech 2018. This method was created was by Lisa Louise Cooke and Diahan Southard. I tweaked the method a little bit, so all the steps won't be shown.  Choosing Your Match It's best to choose a male match because males don't usually change their last name. The trees can be either private or no tree at all. Clues To Names in Usernames This DNA Match shown below has a tree, but when I first did this method (Mar 2018) the match didn't have it at the time. One of the things to look at is the username.  Think about "Is the username a name or contain a name?" ...