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Free Genealogy Podcasts & Internet Radio

Below are some of the Internet’s most popular genealogical ‘broadcasts’. Please use our contact page if there are other podcasts or Internet Radio programs you would like to see listed here. Podcasts Dick Eastman offers “radio broadcast” (podcast) interviews of many of the world’s leading genealogy experts (on the world’s most popular genealogy BLOG). “The [...]

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50 Free Genealogy Courses

For those wishing to learn ‘more’ on how to conduct Genealogical research, acquaint themselves with the basics, or just see ‘how things are done’; there are numerous sources of on-line training. Hopefully you will find these nearly 50 Free courses to be of value as you develop your skills, knowledge, and genealogical information. Familysearch.org The [...]

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15 Excellent & FREE Genealogy Sites

Numerous excellent FREE genealogy sites are available- probably too many to mention. Beyond the sites listed below from LovetoKnow, I suggest the following exceptional sites (obviously these relate heavily to my areas of research): Norwegian National Archives GenWIKI (German) Genealogy of Canada National Archives of Quebec (French) Progenealogists (Page of Links) sourced from LovetoKnow Roots [...]

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A History of French Canada 1650 to 1669

source: David Garneau 1650 Nine marriages, forty three births and ten deaths are recorded in Kebec, New France. The census of New France reached 705 people. Forty five Frenchmen married with Indian sauvagesses in Acadia before 1650. (I)-Elie Barbeau dit Villeneuve is in Quebec. Trois Rivieres, birth (II)-Marie Crevier Metis daughter (I)-Christophe Crevier Sieur de [...]

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The best non-genealogy genealogy places #2

Books offer some of the best information! Personally, I find history texts and map books to especially helpful in doing my genealogy work. So if you are like me and are always looking for good places to obtain free textbooks, I highly recommend the following web locations: Project Gutenberg (the grand-daddy of them all!)- Many [...]

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Genealogy of Canada

Genealogy of Canada is a great site for researching French Canadian ancestry.  I discovered the site two days ago when I was stumped trying to locate some relatives. The site is developed primarily for native French Canadian language speakers and offered in translated English.  I have had no major problems with the English variant; it [...]

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The best non-genealogy genealogy places #1

Some of the most useful genealogy sites and locations, often are not genealogical in nature, include the following: Internet Archive.  This site is associated with the wayback machine, for those who remember that. The site provides access to a wealth of source documents, histories, etc.  All the documents provided are free of copyright encumbrances, which [...]

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Tips, Opinions & Pointers

In an effort to provide some basic, albeit randomly structured, coaching, I write posts on issues involving genealogy and genealogy related tools. Like most of you, I am not a professional or an expert.  I just share my thoughts, ideas, and lessons-learned in the hopes that they might be useful.  No guarantees are expressed or implied! Hopefully [...]

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Source Materials- Microfilm Tips & Warnings

For those of you who have not used genealogical source data before, I can assure you this is an adventure. In most ways, my experiences have been very positive as well as curious. I should also admit that almost all source material I have used has been either German or French Canadian. I have never [...]

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Genealogy, Data Quality

Data Quality is the first in a series of posts on “Genealogy Gotchas”. (I thought this might present useful tips & pointers to our readers while I await your votes on my little poll.)

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