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Tami osmer glatz's Blog – March 2011 Archive (3)

Win a Geni.com 12 month Pro Account, but Hurry!

The good folks over at Geni.com have given me a 12 month Pro Account to give away for free! Please visit my blog, Relatively Curious About Genealogy, for the details. Drawing is this Friday, April 1. Hurry, and Good Luck!

Added by tami osmer glatz on March 30, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

30% Discount on New Ancestry.com Memberships

I'd heard about this a while back, but just today verified it for myself - and it's true! If you go to your local LDS Family History Center, all of which are free to use and open to the public, and ask them to show you how to use their library version of Ancestry.com through their "portal", from the opening screen there will be a "sign up" offer on the right side of the screen. When you enter your email address, it will email you an… Continue

Added by tami osmer glatz on March 15, 2011 at 7:29pm — No Comments

Death, Deceit and a Couple of Sea Captains

A while back, my niece's husband asked me if I would help him look into his ancestry. (He thought that perhaps his family had “come from whales”.) Seeing as he was and still is serving our country in the Air Force, I was happy to see what I could help him find. In addition to showing him how to do basic census records research, I ran some searches on several of the online digitized book sites. We were both amazed at what I found about one of his ancestors in a book on HeritageQuest --…

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Added by tami osmer glatz on March 9, 2011 at 9:24am — 1 Comment