I’ve been an Ancestry dot com subscriber mostly on / occasionally off since the nineteen-hundreds. I built my tree on Family Tree Maker. Since FTM works in tandem with Ancestry, changes to one or the other was easy peasy. My free time was limited for a few of those years and my tree would sometimes…
Something wonderful is in the air ~ spring cleaning! Having recently left my 40-hour-workweek behind, I’m all about pulling, purging and perfecting my environment. My digital environment hasn’t escaped the virtual feather duster either; I’m on a mission to bring my genealogy files to a state of organization they haven’t seen for a long time.…
All of my ancestors are interesting to me: strong women, young widowers, trail blazers, determined farmers, gifted children. I love learning about the ones who overcame obstacles, those who found love, the people who traveled great distances and those who stayed put. I’m interested in the geography and history that shaped my ancestors’ lives. I…
In preparation for my first WMGS DNA special interest group meeting, Johanna Christina Carlson’s binder was a good place to start my binder organizational re-do. This is a first step in determining if Johanna’s father is Karl Johan Andersson Molin (1854-1895). Johanna is my maternal grandfather’s mother. Currently the spine label on Johanna’s genealogical binder…
I blame myself. Two pieces of paper were left alone overnight and suddenly my desk was awash in clutter. Despite my ‘design for success’ plan, I hadn’t considered the genealogical documents that cannot be addressed immediately. Where do those random various-surname documents go? Certificates and notes started to collect on my desk and distract me,…
This morning I put a second coat of paint on a small shelf and a mailing tube. The shelf had been in our garage for years. The mailing tube contained a Swedish family history chart dating back to 1620, a gift from my cousin, another Tolf descendant. In its new life the shelf will display…
Over the next few months, I will drastically reduce my work-away-from-home hours. Knowing I’ll have more time to delve into family history research, sewing projects, and the next great novel, I started seeing my home office with new eyes. My family history research is in binders labeled with my ancestors’ surnames. The binders were stored…
A new year. A chance to do more things. Do better things. Perhaps do more things in better ways. 2024 will be a year of change for me. My work-outside-the-home hours will be reduced by half. What shall I do with “extra” time? I started by asking myself what was important to me. What things…
Födelse- och dopböcker or birth and baptism registers begin in 1869 in the Tånnö church archives at Riksarkivet. This can be a challenging area for research because of fires that destroyed a number of church records. However, it is possible to verify the 1863 birth date of Anders Gustaf Linnell, the firstborn child of Johan…
My long-running daydream about a someday trip to Scandinavia has been updated to planning a trip that will take place within the next few months. Yippee (and eek)! This means my 2022 genealogy goal of finding all the living descendants of my Swedish and Norwegian 4th great-grandparents moved up to the tip top of my…
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