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Ireland by Taylor James Free access to military records at Ancestry.com this weekend in honor of Memorial Day. Also, this is exciting if you have any Irish relations, Irishgenealogy.ie has now added...

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Ancestry Livestream

The right side is tingling!   Ancestry.com and Livestream have a great series of genealogy webinars.    But you don’t have to just livestream them because there is an archive of many other webinars on...

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Ancestry.com Class at Elm City

Teaching a class on how to get the most out of Ancestry.com (at least the library edition).  But also, just how to get started (for the beginners).

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North Carolina Freedmen’s Bank Records, 1865-1874

This month’s Tree’s of Wilson, Wilson County Genealogical Society’s newsletter, printed this lovely list of banking records of former slaves and free people (gleaned from Ancestry.com) that were from...

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Ancestry Putting the Axe on Family Tree Maker

Many people will be upset by this. Make ready your fainting couch because due to the declining software market, Ancestry will discontinue selling Family Tree Maker on December 31, 2015 and will stop...

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Irish Genealogy

My mother, Katherine Robinson with her namesake, grandmother and Irish immigrant Katherine Quigley. She was in her 90’s in this picture. If you are interested in Irish Genealogy then next month will be...

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National Genealogical Society 2017 Family History Conference

Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the National Genealogical Society 2017 Family History Conference. It was held in Raleigh this year, so it was only 15 minutes from my house. Very...

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