Definitions, Correlations, "Call it what you will", Genealogy or "Family History"

Genealogy Is:

"Family History" Is: 

• Posterity:
  all future generations of people; the descendants of a person;
• ***Ancestors and Ancestral Lines: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/499125571177592714/;

  

  My Grandmother, Eunice Tucker Hill Hall

• Boring:
  
• ***All About Technology: Links at the FamilySearch Wiki
• Hard? Hard! Stumped? 
• About Stories: Archive your stories.  Tell/share your stories. 
•  Storycorps: questions

• ***Photos:  The photo to the right is, of course, of mostly grandchildren and children and various members of my family.  Did you know that FamilySearch has the capacity to load photos? 

Regarding the familysearch.org/photos topic, be sure to check out YouTube for instructions and for Genealogy topics in general.

• Family History is all about Challenges and it Being a Challenging exercise!  No pain, no gain!  Challenge Yourself.  

• Catastrophes and Calamities: 
• How they might have shaped your family's story
• Natural Disasters and Genealogy

• The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Your Ancestors

• Genealogy is "A record of one's ancestors":
• Become educated at the National Archives Web Site.
• Learn what a record group is: "
  Different Kinds of Record Groups
  The fact is, by including all these rooms you'll need different record groups (building materials) like those we will study in this series. Some provide evidence of glorious or sorrowful life events. Others guide you to other resources, but each major record group has a purpose in your construction plans to build an authentic family history. We need them to support our entire building. Without all of them, we have a half-finished structure.
  This next group of lessons will cover some of the major record groups genealogists use which we have not covered as fully yet. They include:
• Civil Registrations
• Census Records
• Court and Probate Records
• Periodicals and Newspapers
• Land and Property Records
• Military Records
• Finding Aids
• Biographies
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Church Records 

• ***Lists:  Family History is Cyndislist! In addition, check out the "list" of genealogy databases at Wikipedia!  
• Did you know that Facebook has Genealogy?!!?  And Katherine R. Willson has created a list for that!  Thanks, Katherine. 
  
• Geography is a Genealogical Goldmine!  It is all about

"Location, Location, Location"

• Maps: How does accessing maps help my genealogical efforts?
• How can I utilize Google Earth and Google Maps for genealogical research?
• Charts and Forms And Templates Too!  These tools will help you get organized whether you are online or want to print them out.
• Misbach Free Forms 
• Buy Software?  Some genealogy programs are free (MyHeritage.com's Family Builder)
• Software purchases for genealogy programs: Read reviews, talk to other genealogy nerds, choose wisely.  Remember, entering your family tree into a software program (as opposed to entering the information online) should offer you the capacity to create a gedcom--a mechanism that will allow you to submit your family tree to websites like WikiTree.com; Ancestry.com; MyHeritage.com and FamilySearch.org, etc.  I use RootsMagic; some folks use Family Tree Maker. Just google "genealogy software" to find out more!  Read reviews and articles.  Google "reviews genealogy software".
•  Here's a thought:  You can design your own charts, forms, reports (and is there a Facebook Group for that?  Maybe!).  You can also find templates at some Genealogy BLOGS!)  I will recommend just one of the many blogs that I follow: this Blog: https://www.geneamusings.com/
• How would you locate other blogs? 
• If you love Excel, you can keep your Excel and use it design your own unique form or chart.   
• I joined a Genealogy Templates Group on Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/genedocstemplates/

 

• Family History is "Descendants"
• Video available on this topic. 
• There isn't a descendancy report option at FamilySearch, (unless I'm blind).  However, the video link above shows you how to do descendancy research at FamilySearch.org
• Use your software program (in my case, Rootsmagic); I can print a descendancy report from Rootsmagic! Why would a report like this be so helpful in this day and age of DNA?!! [Because it will help you to identify your cousins?!!]
  

 
 
 
 

• Genealogy and Timelines:
•  https://www.cyndislist.com/timelines/templates/
• Templates and Grids for Genealogy
• Article about using timelines for Genealogy
• History and Timelines 

•  Genealogy and Blueberries:  Many folks who live in NWFL aren't aware that one of the great cash crops in the history of Walton & Okaloosa County was blueberries!  After reading the NWFL Daily News article I had to clap my hands!  I had just recently learned that I am related to the Sapp family mentioned in the article.  

So, what is it about genealogy/family history that you love?  

 

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• Is it About Families?
• Are you having Fun?
• Lineage
• Is it about BMD's?
• Bloodlines
• Is family history your passion or just a Hobby?
• Origin
• Obituaries
• Cemeteries
• Making Choices
• Addictive
• Research
• History
• An Account and An Accounting
• A Pedigree
• A Group