Tami osmer glatz's Blog – August 2009 Archive (5)

I've read a few other folks' ideas on the 'best way' to organize your genealogy. Honestly, the 'best way' is the one that works for you. Organization is the key to survival in any aspect of life!



You already know that genealogy research generates mountains of papers, from seriously important copies of vital records and heirloom family notes and letters, to simple “notes to self” on ideas of where to research next on a family line. And I’m sure you’ve already figured out that it sure… Continue

It can be a bit disheartening when you start chasing a family line, and you soon find yourself in a foreign country, like Denmark, Italy or Czechoslovakia (Or perhaps the US is a foreign country for you!) What do you do next? How can you further your family research if you can’t afford a trip overseas and you don’t speak the language?



Well believe it or not, you actually have several options. They all involve a little work, mind you - nothing quite so simple as typing your name into… Continue

Lots of folks tend to be misinformed about LDS genealogy resources. Many changes have been going on in the past few years, which have included major revamping of the LDS genealogy website www.FamilySearch.org. I’d like to just mention a few of the resources available from the website that I feel are of real importance to genealogical researchers - and even better than Ancestry.com (because they’re free!)



From the… Continue

Brigham Young University is working on a new website (currently in Beta) called Historic Journals (http://journals.byu.edu) where historic journals are being digitized and posted online. If you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and have registered for the New FamilySearch program, you can sign in to the website, and automatically, your pedigree chart from NewFamilySearch is compared to the names that… Continue

I came across another really interesting website today, called Odessa (http://www.odessa3.org). The Odessa website is an absolute goldmine of information about Germans who emigrated to Russia (and to other places after that) in the 1800s, and their descendants. There are digitized books and transcribed and indexed microfilm from the Family History Library for dozens of different areas and topics.



One of the main… Continue