Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Today's tip is simple: use 100 percent cotton paper. For the printouts you intend to keep forever, cotton paper is the way to go. Paper Permanence Choose 100 percent cotton paper like Strathmore because [...]
Today's post is short and sweet and about free family history books online. Family History Books (books.familysearch.org) contains more than 200,000 digitized genealogy, family history, and local history publications available from around the world. "The [...]
Google Maps Offline (Courtesy CNET) Are you interested in using Google Maps offline? There are two big advantages to using Google Maps offline this way: Save money by going easy on your [...]
Translating Meyers Konversations-lexikon is a snap thanks to this new site. Have you used Meyers Konversations-lexikon? The gazetteer Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs (English title: Meyers Commercial Gazetteer of the German Empire) is [...]
This Tuesday's Tip is about how to Google search similar websites, continuing my series on Google Search Tricks. Google is great – we all know that, and so successful that it's now not just [...]
This Tuesday's Tip is a new (to me) resource called the Genealogy on Facebook list. Genealogist Katherine R. Willson of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has compiled a list of 3,000+ Facebook genealogy links and updates the list [...]
This Tuesday’s Tip is about effective FamilySearch place name searches, including how to find related places. We know the FamilySearch online library catalog is the place to go to find out what microfilm is available [...]
Two iPad keyboard tricks are Tuesday's Tip. I'm speaking at Rootstech 2014 on Friday, February 7th at 10:30 a.m. on Using Macs and iPads for Genealogy. Hope to see you in Salt Lake City, but if you can't make [...]
Translator apps is the topic for this Tuesday's Tip. I may have been a whiz at history in school, but languages defeated me. That makes tech help imperative for me and for lots of other [...]
This Tuesday's Tip is about Google Search By File Type, continuing with my new series on Google Search Tricks. Google is great – we all know that, and so successful that it's become a [...]
Google Search Specific Sites is Tuesday's Tip. Today I'm starting a new series on Google Search Tricks. Google is great – we all know that, and so successful that it's become a genericized trademark for [...]
Courtesy Center for Home Movies Other posts in the Sassy Jane Preserving series are here. Preserving Home Movies October 19 is International Home Movie Day 2013. The celebration began in 2002 by film archivists concerned about preserving [...]
Save Your Stuff – Textiles for Tuesday’s Tip Genealogists are family archivists and sometimes they’re museum curators too. If you need to preserve family textiles – Grandma’s quilt, Mom’s wedding dress, Great-great-grandma’s needlework sampler – [...]
Preserving Textiles – Tuesday’s Tip Genealogists are family archivists and sometimes they’re museum curators too. If you are fortunate enough to have them, you need to think about preserving textiles – Grandma’s quilt, Mom’s wedding [...]
Using maps in genealogy is Tuesday's Tip. If you're researching in an area of the U.S. where the place names have changed (and who isn't?), here are three resources that can help. U.S. Geographic [...]
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