Family Tree Frog

  This is the third blog post for the #NationalFamilyHistoryMonth blogging challenge.  You can find out all about it here. Week 3 - Share - tips for smashing brick walls, or your opinion on what needs to be fixed/changed in family history - "If I ruled the world!".  Tell us what you can't live without - maybe it's a piece of tech gear, your society or group, or your library. It's so difficult to choose what you can't do without but I'm going to perhaps choose something that may seem a bit unusual or different.  I can't do without my family history podcasts.  There you are. I was going to say I can't do without the internet and yes, of course, that really would be a dint in my family history research.  I wouldn't be able to access my databases, search library catalogues or great websites, blog or send emails to my cousins or share stuff on Dropbox or attend Special Interest Groups at my Society or attend workshops or meetings via Zoom.  So defin...

It's that time of year when we look back at what has happened in 2017 and are looking forward to the New Year.  What or who has helped us along our research path in our quest for our ancestors' stories?  I have much to be grateful for and at the top of my list is .... Arwen Number 1 - Arwen (my training partner) Now I know you are probably wondering how an earth a dog can help with family history.  Is she very good at sniffing out ancestors????  No, not really.  But she is very good at nudging me to get off my bottom and go for a walk which keeps me healthy (so I have even longer to do my family history!! Tee hee!).  In fact I was going to say at the very beginning of this post that I am incredibly grateful for my good health but I thought " Who or what can I thank for that?"    Of course I could thank my ancestors and their good genes but I really do have to thank Arwen.  I could sit for hours in front of the computer screen g...

You could say that I have covered Periodicals already under J for journals. However, while I've been compiling these posts, I have also been walking the dog every morning and listening to some Podcasts. What podcasts do I listen to?  Anything and everything really but you might be interested in the following genealogy podcasts.... Genealogy Guys Genies Down Under Genealogy Gems The National Archives Anyways, I was listening to the Genealogy Guys and I kept hearing them mention the PERSI Index on Find My Past.  It's amazing what you don't know about tools that you use on a regular basis.  So I will mention it now for what it is worth.  You can access the PERSI index on Find My Past!!!  You can search it here.  You can read about what it is here on the lovely Family Search wiki. If you have invested in resources for your genealogy library be they books, CDs, certificates...whatever you are probably interested in Preserving them or at le...