Genealogy Genealogy Record Keeping

Prove It!

In the early 1950s, I started doing research on my Mother’s family. At that time, there were no computers to consult, no microfilm available to me, and no xerox machines to make copies. If I wanted a copy of a document, I had to have a photographic copy made by someone with more than a Brownie Hawk Eye camera to get the close up image of the page. Needless to say, much of my early research went undocumented. Besides all of the above, I had never even heard of a…

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Beginning Genealogy Genealogy Record Keeping Genealogy Research Check List

Genealogy Research Check List

It seems that as I get older my mind runs on a single track and narrow gauge at that. I first noticed this back in the beginning stages of my genealogy research while I was still in college. I had a time keeping up with what I had found and what I was looking for each person in my research. Of course, this was before computers, before copy machines and for me before microfilm readers. You see I’ve been at it a long time, over fifty years. The solution I…

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