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 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....
by Christine Bell | Mar 25, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
The appeal of stories and storytelling is universal. In some cultures, stories preserved history before there was a written history. Through stories we can travel to times and places that we couldn’t otherwise. Stories teach important truths in a way that helps...
by Christine Bell | Mar 18, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
One type of public record that can be very useful for family history research is a census record. Taking a census is a government’s method of counting the country’s population. Censuses have been taken since ancient times. The scope of this article will be limited...
