Showing posts with label Trivia and useful factoids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trivia and useful factoids. Show all posts

Thursday, November 28, 2013

How to Complete Your Entire Family Tree Fast and Easy!

(Notice I didn't say it would be accurate). 

I don't know if the stuff you'd get from "plying" a family member with liquor is anything you'd want to put in your tree, there's skeletons enough without that kind of info....but I've seen a bit of work that looks like this is how it was done....and then done some myself that probably left questions as to my own sobriety when I was tired or rushing.  

Slow down! And have fun.  Speed is impressive, accuracy is useful.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Unexpected Discovery

Along with "Prayer" I guess we can add "The Force" or for some people even "The Internet" to our toolkit I suppose. Just make sure you use genealogy for good, not evil, okay?

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Cousins!

In case you've ever wondered about cousins, here's a simple flowchart mapping out who is who.  Simply put a cousin is someone who has the same grandparents as you, so a second cousin wold have the same great grandparents, and on and on.