You don’t have to buy anything on Ebay to get genealogical use out of it. However using Ebay for genealogical research is more than searching and copying whatever images you can from the site before they disappear. Daily there are thousands of images of items on the site, particularly postcards and old photographs that could be helpful in your […]

As always, if you have ordered one of these and have not received it, please email me. “Using Archive.org” Archive.org has millions of free images of genealogical material, including: National Archives microfilm from the Allen County Public Library Thousands of books from the Allen County Public Library USGS maps County histories from across the United […]

Happy Holidays from the staff of 1 here at Rootdig. Yours truly is holding a stuffed animal and sitting on his mother’s lap in this picture from 1970. Don’t forget to take at least one picture of yourself this holiday season and make certain to preserve it. Future generations will be glad you did.

Geography matters. Reading matters. Ancestry.com announced an update of their yearbook collection. As usual it is difficult to have any real clue what has been added, what’s been refined, and whether updates have been made to the index. It’s just been updated. Apparently Ancestry.com still has not discovered that the yearbooks they have online are for the […]

We’ve released the following webinars–if you registered originally and didn’t receive links, please let me know. You are not to purchase again if you were an original registrant. “Using Archive.org” Archive.org has millions of free images of genealogical material, including: National Archives microfilm from the Allen County Public Library Thousands of books from the Allen […]

I’ve made some discoveries of genealogically-related material on Ebay. I have yet to actually find an artifact or piece of ephemera actually belonging to an ancestor. What I have found are “ancestral-related” materials.  Search term suggestions for Ebay: names of small towns with no additional search parameters tioga illinois “west point” illinois names of larger towns perhaps […]

Genealogy is not a video game where the action figures are already dead. You can quote me on that. I would like a leaf–just one. I don’t really use the trees on Ancestry.com the way they are intended to be used. I rarely use anything the way it is supposed to be good, so I’m […]

While prepping for my “Researching Female Ancestors” webinar, I came across references to a book I have been meaning to read for some time: A Nationality of Her Own: Women Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship.  Marie (Desmarais/Demar) Apgar Verikios Williams, born in Clinton County, New York, in the 1890s technically lost her citizenship when she […]