Tools for genealogists
If you’ve followed our previous advice, you’ve taken care to keep a “digital copy” of the information you’ve consulted when researching your genealogy. If you haven’t – yet – we invite you to re-read this publication. Having a copy is essential to guarantee the existence of information (proof) and to refer to it in case …
You’ve certainly thought about sharing the results of your genealogical research with your family and friends. There are several possible approaches, each of which requires a greater or lesser amount of work on the part of the genealogist, for a more or less exhaustive result of your work. Print pedigree trees and fan wheels Displaying …
When you start to have several hundred people in your genealogy, it’s not uncommon to lose track of the progress of research for each member of the various family branches. Since the information you’re looking for isn’t always immediately available, it’s not uncommon to move on to another person and then come back to complete …
If you’ve had a chance to read the articles on this site, you’ll already know that I’m a fervent advocate of the importance of sources of information in genealogical research. Indeed, if you want to obtain a genealogy that is faithful to reality and free from approximations, the only solution is to start from the …
Because genealogy is the story of the men and women who make up your family, this month I’d like to take care of the people in your genealogy. So why do we need to take care of people? While it’s important to check regularly that you’re not forgetting anyone in your research, it’s even more …
This month, I’d like to show you how to use events to structure and carry out your research. So why bother with events at all? Genealogy is all about collecting diverse and scattered information by no less diverse means. The genealogist is therefore confronted with disparate information that he or she will have to obtain …
This month, I’d like you to work on the places found in all genealogical information. By the way, why should we care about places? The information may seem secondary, but there are at least three good reasons to pay attention to it: First of all, knowing where an event took place enables you to search …
With the arrival of warmer weather, here’s a new opportunity to revive the traditions of our ancestors: spring-cleaning. As a genealogist, you won’t have to take the furniture out into the garden and kick up the dust on your carpets. Instead, I suggest you look for all those little grains of sand that get in …
You often hear about identity theft, and it may surprise you. How is it possible for someone to pretend to be someone else? Aren’t there any checks? Aren’t you asked to provide birth certificates to have your identity papers redone?
