<div dir="ltr"><div><div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:inside;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Genealogy Tip of the Day Books</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Keeping It</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Farmers and Not Landowners</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Common Name Webinar</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Consultations</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--------------------------------------</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Genealogy Tip of the Day Books</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--------------------------------------</div></li></ul><div>Want our tips in book form? Well wait no longer.</div><div><br></div><div>Order your &quot;Genealogy Tip of the Day&quot; or &quot;More Genealogy Tip of the Day&quot; now in order to receive them by the holidays. </div><div><br></div><div>First Book<br><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book/" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The &quot;more&quot; Book<br><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/more-genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book/" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com-/index.php/more-genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book/</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Keeping It<br>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">This is your reminder that not everything needs to be kept and that it is perfectly allowable to recycle or get rid of &quot;family history&quot; things.</div></div><div style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">I <span style="text-align:inherit;padding-bottom:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:inherit"><a style="color:rgb(56,88,152);text-align:inherit;padding-bottom:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:inherit"></a></span>don&#39;t need to keep every drawing a child made. I don&#39;t need to keep every drawing of mine that my Mother kept. I don&#39;t even need to keep drawings that I make now to illustrate various things.</div></div><div style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">It&#39;s perfectly allowable to not keep it all.</div></div><div style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">And it&#39;s ok to keep things that others think you should get rid of--just make certain you do not go overboard with it.</div></div><div style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">I also think it&#39;s helpful to organize things somewhat to make it easier for who goes through your things after you pass and decide that to keep and what not to keep. I think making it easier for someone after you is a good idea and makes it less likely it all gets trashed. But if you don&#39;t do that...no skin off my nose. It&#39;s your stuff not mine and it&#39;s not my problem because it&#39;s not my stuff and I won&#39;t be going through it. I&#39;ve already done that with my parents, grandparents, and one great-aunt. There&#39;s no one else whose stuff I&#39;ll have to go through if they pass.</div></div><div style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">------------------------------</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--------</span><br></div></div></div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:inside;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Farmers But Not Landowners</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>--------------------------------------</div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px">Presentations on farming ancestors tend to focus on those who owned real estate. It can be a challenge to research those farmers who rented their ground, worked as sharecroppers, or those who worked in agriculture as farm laborers. </span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;text-decoration-line:none;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">In this presentation we focus on these types of individuals</a><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px">. Farm renters, sharecroppers, and farm laborers tend to leave fewer records\u2013</span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;text-decoration-line:none;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">we\u2019ll focus on research strategies directed towards them.</a><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px"> They can be challenging to research in a way that landowners are not.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px">Details at:</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com</a><br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">---------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>Common Name Webinar<br>--------------------------------------</div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Details on this presentation are at:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Consultations with Michael</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">-----------------------------------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