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“Document” Enhancement --By Mark Rabideau on February 7th, 2010
Image & document restoration is key to successfully reading many genealogical documents. The source documents we have available [...]
“Photo” Enhancements --By Mark Rabideau on February 11th, 2010
Getting a good picture from an aged image is crucial to developing and maintaining a good family history. [...]
15 Excellent & FREE Genealogy Sites --By Mark Rabideau on April 24th, 2010
Numerous excellent FREE genealogy sites are available- probably too many to mention. Beyond the sites listed below from [...]
20-20 Hindsight --By Mark Rabideau on June 10th, 2010
Ah, the advantages of hindsight. Looking back in time and regretting the decisions that were made, the options [...]
50+ Free Genealogy Courses --By Mark Rabideau on July 14th, 2010
For those wishing to learn ‘more’ on how to conduct Genealogical research, acquaint themselves with the basics, or [...]
A Great Find… --By Mark Rabideau on April 4th, 2010
One of the great joys of doing genealogy work is that every once in a while, you make [...]
A Great Find… (part 2) -Raphael & Euphemie Robidoux --By Mark Rabideau on April 8th, 2010
I received the following email this morning from Barb Deyo; it read: Hi Mark, I wanted to send [...]
A wonderful day of research! --By Mark Rabideau on January 12th, 2010
I guess this is what makes genealogy addictive… I found another generation of Saengers in my mother’s family. [...]
Ancestry Downloads --By Mark Rabideau on March 12th, 2010
Ancestry download issues?? Like the rest of you, I need to download my Ancestry work files. Also like [...]
Ancestry Hints! --By Mark Rabideau on February 27th, 2010
Beware the hints! I know, I have said that before but the entire prospect of using poorly proofed [...]
Another Genealogy Adventure…. part 1 --By Mark Rabideau on April 29th, 2010
As I have written numerous times before the Deyo portion of my family is a bit of a [...]
Another Genealogy Adventure…. part 2 --By Mark Rabideau on April 30th, 2010
To fix the problems, Craig and I devised a fairly simple plan. Craig sent me the genealogical documents [...]
Are you serious? --By Mark Rabideau on February 20th, 2010
Genealogical research always presents dilemmas. These dilemmas almost always have significant impact and represent important family history decisions. [...]
Assumptions & Genealogy --By Mark Rabideau on February 14th, 2010
Genealogy requires assumptions… Over the past few weeks, I have been working on discovering (perhaps rediscovering) a family [...]
Attribution --By Mark Rabideau on May 20th, 2010
Acknowledge your sources! Today I received a note from a very important genealogy friend. She asked me if [...]
Be honest --By Mark Rabideau on March 5th, 2010
Honesty is one of the most important dimensions of good genealogy and family history. We all have backgrounds [...]
Before you start --By Mark Rabideau on February 21st, 2010
A very important dimension of genealogy involves history and context. You may already know that and if so, [...]
Changes on ManyRoads --By Mark Rabideau on August 12th, 2010
The changes are a-coming! Some of the changes to the site are fairly significant others tiny. However, although [...]
Civility and history --By Mark Rabideau on June 9th, 2010
Unfortunately when people are expelled from areas, civility is not always, or perhaps even generally, the rule. Such [...]
Cleanup from Ancestry.com #1 --By Mark Rabideau on April 1st, 2010
I don’t know how many of you, like me, use Ancestry.com as their data collection and ‘easy analysis’ [...]
Cleanup from Ancestry.com #2 --By Mark Rabideau on April 2nd, 2010
Ancestry files require a lot of clean-up before they are really useful or accurate. As I noted earlier, [...]
Data Cleanup Tip #1 --By Mark Rabideau on April 3rd, 2010
One quick trick I discovered for repairing problem Genealogy data involves using an editor -I like geany and [...]
Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 1 --By Mark Rabideau on February 16th, 2010
Beware of the free hints at Ancestry.com. One of the biggest problems with Ancestry.com hints is in the [...]
Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 2 --By Mark Rabideau on February 17th, 2010
So how do you prevent yourself from becoming a contributor to the vast amount of bad genealogy data?
Data, Friends, and Reviews – part 3 --By Mark Rabideau on February 18th, 2010
Where does one get good genealogy data? Unfortunately, there is no single correct answer to this question. The [...]
Find your friends --By Mark Rabideau on June 23rd, 2010
Find your friends. If you run a family history/ genealogy website, building associations and affiliations can be a [...]
Finding “lost” family --By Mark Rabideau on May 3rd, 2010
Finding a lost family connection can be daunting, exhilarating and exasperating. The human need for connection to family [...]
Free Genealogy Forms, Software, etc. --By Mark Rabideau on July 21st, 2010
Genealogy Free Stuff! Free Genealogy Forms, Clip Art, Books, and more Free Genealogy Clip Art : Images, graphics, [...]
Free Genealogy Podcasts & Internet Radio --By Mark Rabideau on July 16th, 2010
Below are some of the Internet’s most popular genealogical ‘broadcasts’. Please use our contact page if there are [...]
Further WordPress – GRAMPS Integration --By Mark Rabideau on April 30th, 2010
With the latest release of GRAMPS (version 3.2.2) I have been able to more tightly integrate the WebSite [...]
Genealogy --By Mark Rabideau on September 9th, 2009
I am not certain if there will be multiple posts here or simply one on-going post. Either way, [...]
Genealogy Courses and Certifications (Tuition) --By Mark Rabideau on July 29th, 2010
This list of Genealogy Courses & Certifications is by no means complete. If you know of certifications or [...]
Genealogy Database “Tools” --By Mark Rabideau on January 29th, 2010
It has been on my mind for quite a while that I should share a bit of insight [...]
Genealogy of Canada --By Mark Rabideau on March 14th, 2010
Genealogy of Canada is a great site for researching French Canadian ancestry. I discovered the site two days [...]
Genealogy Webinars & Online TV- Free! --By Mark Rabideau on July 17th, 2010
In keeping with my theme on Free Genealogical ‘education’; here are some webinars and Web TV no-cost options. [...]
Genealogy within context --By Mark Rabideau on August 6th, 2010
Learning about your past, the past, any past requires an open mind and open eyes. An attention to [...]
Genealogy, Data Quality --By Mark Rabideau on January 31st, 2010
Data Quality is the first in a series of posts on “Genealogy Gotchas”. (I thought this might present [...]
Genetic Genealogy --By Mark Rabideau on May 27th, 2010
All of us have DNA. Even if we do not know the names of our ancestors, we have [...]
GRAMPS – WordPress Integration --By Mark Rabideau on April 18th, 2010
Integrating GRAMPS and WordPress is a very straightforward activity. Not a lot of special skills or tools are [...]
GRAMPS review and decision #1 --By Mark Rabideau on April 13th, 2010
Using GRAMPS as a primary management, storage and presentation tool for our genealogical data came about slowly. As [...]
GRAMPS review and decision #2 --By Mark Rabideau on April 14th, 2010
Based upon my decision to use GRAMPS as our primary genealogical database management environment, I have begun the [...]
GRAMPS review and decision #3 --By Mark Rabideau on April 16th, 2010
Today we have published three (3) branches of our genealogy; two (2) are available for public access. Senger [...]
Here today…gone tomorrow --By Mark Rabideau on July 28th, 2010
Grab the data while you can. I guess that is what every online genealogist needs to have as [...]
It is not a contest --By Mark Rabideau on June 5th, 2010
It seems many people believe that genealogy, or family history, is some sort of competition or contest. Their [...]
Look in a mirror… --By Mark Rabideau on April 17th, 2010
People fear the past… they fear their history. I have had countless conversations with family genealogists who have [...]
Many Roads Theme --By Mark Rabideau on November 11th, 2009
Our theme song… Blowin’ in the wind (or How Many Roads) is written by Bob Dylan, and sung [...]
Merging Genealogy “Branches” --By Mark Rabideau on April 28th, 2010
Merging branches (also known as cutting and pruning) is something you will most certainly need to do; unless [...]
NGS Videos --By Mark Rabideau on September 3rd, 2010
If you have not seen this video, I recommend it. It provides a good basic introduction to the [...]
No historical records? --By Mark Rabideau on March 4th, 2010
Yesterday while working on my genealogy, I accidently got carried away. Hard to believe but true. Here is [...]
No name, no date… #1 --By Mark Rabideau on May 14th, 2010
Ever have a person without a clear name or birth/ death dates? I seem to regularly encounter family [...]
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