by Christine Bell | May 6, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
Internet message boards have been around nearly as long as the internet itself. For many people message boards have been replaced by Facebook and Twitter, which have quicker response times. Message boards are still useful for the genealogist despite the possibility...
by Christine Bell | Apr 29, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
Is your family history displayed on the walls of your home? If not, why not? Perhaps you are concerned about the effects of light and other environmental factors might have on vintage photos and documents. Fortunately, making a good scan of photos and documents is...
by Christine Bell | Apr 22, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
While I was pondering how to share my ideas on how to create your own genealogy blog, I remembered that I had a lot of questions at the start. As a result, I am going to going to write this post in a question and answer format. Why would I create a genealogy blog? ...
by Christine Bell | Apr 15, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
Since you are reading this article on a blog, I probably don’t need to tell you that there are blogs about everything and genealogy is no exception. Genealogy blogs are written by a variety of people for a variety of reasons. I have read a number of these blogs and...
by Christine Bell | Apr 8, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
You are seated at your computer or laptop and searching for an ancestor at FamilySearch.org. You type in a name and add maybe a birthdate and place and then click search. In just seconds, up comes a list of records with one or more of them belonging to your...
by Christine Bell | Apr 1, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
It may seem strange to compare a genealogy website like FamilySearch.org to Facebook but there are a lot of cool similarities. I will start with Facebook. What’s on your Facebook pages? On mine I have information about where I grew and the schools I have attended....
