A Family Tapestry

Monday, November 17, 2025

Finding "My People,"
Twenty-first Century Style

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  There's always something about finding those people with whom your words, actions, and even preferences just resonate. Some friends of...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Connectivity

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  If there's one thing necessary for genealogical success, it's connectivity. By that, I don't just mean the technological impli...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Sucking Story out of Statistics

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  The trouble with researching these formerly nameless Polish ancestors from generations past in my father's history is that they come t...
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Friday, November 14, 2025

Tap Dancing Between Three Resources

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  No matter how fascinating it might seem to pursue those mystery family roots into antiquity, the tasks involved can often turn tedious. Ri...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

A Road Map for the Family Tree

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  As I had discovered last summer when puzzling over the many name twins in my father-in-law's Irish family tree, a road map is an indis...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Advertising for Connections

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  The grunt work has begun: scouring documents and transcriptions of records at both FamilySearch.org and the database of PTG , the Pomerani...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Finding the Ones who Didn't Emigrate

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  Finding DNA matches who still live in Poland puts a researcher in a tantalizing place. I want to connect with those Polish cousins from P...
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Jacqi Stevens
It is my contention that, after a lifetime, one of the greatest needs people have is to be remembered. They want to know: have I made a difference? I write because I can't keep for myself the gifts others have entrusted to me. Through what I've already been given--though not forgetting those to whom I must pass this along--from family I receive my heritage; through family I leave a legacy. With family I weave a tapestry. These are my strands.
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