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No more haphazard searching! Using the research form ideas from Marian Louis Pierre (specifically from her 2012 webinar and syllabus: ...

My fan chart at FamilySearch.  My father's people are blue and green, Mom's people are red and yellow, just like in Mary Hill'...

It was over 57,000 profiles in my tree last year. I'm paying the price for putting all those unnecessary in-laws and step-brothers o...

My cat Whirly inspecting the new supplies As I mentioned in a blog post last month I am organizing my genealogy paperwork a la Mary Hill...

I'm still getting used to the program.  This is a chance to review how to set up and customize the program, which never hurts.  The ne...

My pedigree with Mary Hill's color scheme, which is included in Legacy 9. I have a tendency to overthink things.  Organization is o...

If one of your New Years' resolutions is to research your genealogy in a more orderly and comprehensive way, you might enjoy Thomas ...

An example of my corrected places, in this case the only known place is Mississippi.  The ", ," is to leave the fields of place...

A number of my Hibbs relations ended up here from Tennessee/Indiana. Newton is the county seat of Jasper County, Iowa (here shaded in pink...

It used to be over 57,000 people.  I've eliminated almost 6,000 since the beginning of this year. I don't know what an ideal a...

Crista Cowan explains and shows why a clean tree improves your genealogy. Let's just say I've gotten carried away with the res...

Crop of the Oakland, CA city directory title page.  Note that other addresses in other nearby cities are also included.  R. L. Polk and Co...

Bremer County's location compared to major cities in the Midwest.   Image taken from City-Data.com's entry on Bremer County, Iowa...

Another day, another day spent cleaning up my locations on my tree.  Part of why I'm cleaning up/standardizing the locations is so t...

I've mentioned before that I am cleaning up my database, and have posted numerous times about said cleaning. Well, the cleaning c...

My password rolodex Let's just say I'm selectively organized.  Much of my house looks like the aftermath of a game of Jumanji, ...

Great to always take a gander at what is new and exciting over at Ancestry. Ancestry has a Recently Added and Updated Collections sect...

I am cleaning up my locations database in Legacy 9.0 because I want to see who lived where.  This is one of the main reasons I bought the...

Karen Clifford , CEO of Genealogy Research Associates , shares her tips on setting up an efficient organization system using Legacy in th...

What I saw all day yesterday. I've been doing this the past few days during my genealogy database cleanup .  I realized a while ago...