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I Don’t Understand Why … - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 May 2022
A few questions that plague me. …Why Some Genealogists Keep Their Main Tree Private Isn’t the purpose of genealogy to preserve and share the history and stories of your ancestors and their families? So what then is the purpose in a genealogist designating their main tree as private and preventing ...
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Working Through 3,000 Matches at MyHeritage - Blog entry by lkessler - 2 May 2022
About 4 years ago, I selected @MyHeritage as my platform to record my genealogical information. I liked MyHeritage best for several reasons. Their customers and datasets were less USA-centric than Ancestry’s, and that fit right into my Eastern European origins. Their free Family Tree Builder program ...
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog comment by elaine martzen - 19 Apr 2022
Loved reading the process, thanks for writing it out! Do you think Google or Yandex is generally better for Hebrew translations? Someday I’ll be able to read well in Hebrew, but it will probably be 10 years or so! I’ll use some of your ideas for an English language city directory I’d like to get into ...
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog comment by digitalarchivist - 14 Apr 2022
Excellent--thanks, Louis! I just placed my order with the special link. Best wishes, Steve Little
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog comment by lkessler - 13 Apr 2022
Steve: Thanks, but I don't have an affiliate link for Shotbox. If you want to purchase a Shotbox, you might still be able to take advantage of their RootsTech special: https://rootstech.shotbox.me/
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog comment by digitalarchivist - 12 Apr 2022
Very cool, the whole process. If you've got an affiliate link for the Shotbox, I'd be glad to use it.
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog entry by lkessler - 11 Apr 2022
Among that family materials I’ve been going through was a photocopied Memorial Book for the town of Mezhiritch in the Ukraine. My mother received this pile of paper from her cousin many years ago. The Memorial Book was printed in Israel in 1955 and it is 442 pages.. So I have it on about 250 sheets of paper. ...
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The WITN (Witness) Tag in GEDCOM - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Mar 2022
I’d like to bring up the topic of having witnesses in your genealogy data, and then how these should be represented in GEDCOM, the standard for transferring genealogical data. What is a Witness? A Witness is a person who sees an event. Often genealogical documents include signatures of witnesses, ...
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My Closest Unknown DNA Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 9 Jan 2022
Judy Russell just released a very interesting post: The 2022 DNA goals on her blog The Legal Genealogist. In it, Judy resolves to try to identify her “top who-is-this-person-match” at each testing company. Judy was the person who prompted, well um, pushed me into getting into DNA testing. It was during the ...
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog comment by lkessler - 20 Apr 2022