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 For many people message boards have been replaced by Facebook and Twitter, which have quicker response times.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 Valerie Steimle | Apr 18, 2014 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
Besides Easter being this Sunday, it is also Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Coming from a Jewish family that also lost one-fourth of those I loved after World War II ended, this causes me great anger. As I think of the tragedy which happened to many Jewish families, it is...
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 | Mar 11, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
As nice as it is to be able to search records from home on Internet, there are many valuable records that are not online, at least not yet. These records can be found in county courthouses, church annexes, state archives, libraries and historical/genealogical...