Nancy Hendrickson's Ancestor News
According to KSL.com, “An American pastime with deep roots in Utah is seeing an explosion in public interest. Two nationally televised programs are giving genealogy research the kind of profile not seen since the TV series “Roots.” For many people, the allure is irresistible. NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” takes famous Americans on a [...]
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Since most genealogy software can now generate timelines, I thought it would be fun to dig a little deeper into thecurrent events of my ancestors’ lives. My great-grandmother, Ella Snow, was born on 19 March, 1857. She shares a 19 March birthday with Western artist Charles Russell (1864), lawman Wyatt Earp (1848), and orator William [...]
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Close to 10 years ago, an interesting phenomenon hit the Web called blogging. Today’s it’s old hat–and the number ofblogs probably outnumbers the population of the U.S.! For genealogists, blogging means you get to share your genealogy information on the Internet, without the hassle of actually building an old-fashioned website. Dimmitt Family History blog image. [...]
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In a TIME essay a few years back, Garrison Keillor wrote about a European trip he took with his two brothers and a sister. Keillor noted that during the trip the siblings talked about events from childhood in a way they couldn’t have had non-siblings been present. And, although they had known each other a [...]
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