Are you aware of the local geography where your ancestor lived? Having access to maps is a great help, but having a certain amount of information “in your head” can save time. For your city ancestors do you know the “name of the neighborhood” (if there was one)? Do you know names of nearby neighborhoods and towns? How close did your family live to the line that divided one city from another? For rural ancestors the same thing applies? What were the names of adjacent townships? How close were they to the county line? Did they live in a part of the county that had a nickname (perhaps based upon where most residents were originally from)? Failing to know some local geography may cause you to look in […]
Now released for immediate download. Ever wanted to create graphics, mind maps, and other graphics for your genealogy research easily? Now you can and we’ll show you how. Notebooklm at Google.Create audio and video overviews, mind maps, reports, quizzes, infographics, and slide decks from your uploaded files, genealogy documents, and the like. Notebooklm is not perfect by a long shot, but it may give you insight into your own research. We will take a responsible genealogical approach to using Notebooklm. It is a tool and like any tool needs to be used carefully and judiciously. We won’t necessarily agree with all the conclusions it reaches, but thinking about its insights and trying to prove/disprove them or analyze them further may enhance our research in ways we did not […]
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