Sep 18, 2024 | Advice, Tutorials
Web Merge is one of my favorite features of Family Tree Maker. It offers convenience, efficiency, and accuracy, all of which make my genealogy research stronger. However, there are a few ways I misused this feature when I was first getting started. I would love to...
Jun 28, 2024 | Advice, Tutorials
If you don’t yet have a subscription to Newspapers.com, you might assume you should give up on trying to see articles from that website … but you would be wrong. There is actually a way to glean information from Newspapers.com articles from within Family Tree...
Dec 26, 2023 | Advice, Research Tales
One of my recommendations before writing a family history is to “clean up your tree”. What does that look like? Join me as I start work on my third family history book, based on my mother’s paternal grandmother, Lena Catherine Birenbaum. The first...
Dec 7, 2021 | Advice, Featured
I have gotten hundreds of responses to my first family book, which has been thrilling! Many people have asked specific questions about how I did it. I’m writing this post to try and address all of these questions in one place. I used several different pieces of...
