Have you ever experienced "genealogy serendipity?" Here's a great book about it! Recently, I came across an old blog...
Celebrate Genealogy Serendipity! (This Book Does, Too)
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Inspiration Articles
How to Share Family History with the Non-Genealogists in Your Family
How can you share family history stories and memories without boring your relatives? Catch this free video preview of...
World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle: Why Not Make Your Own?
MSN recently reported the surfacing of perhaps the oldest known message in a bottle. If YOU sent one, what would it...
Write Your Family History: A Printed Book or Digital Archive?
It's time (maybe past time!) to write your family history. Should you write a book or throw everything into a digital...
Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast Episode 126 Features Family History Travel and More
Genealogy Gems Premium members can now tune in to Premium podcast episode 126 on family history travel and more. Have...
Want to Help Index De-Classified CIA Records?
By now, many of us have tried our hand at volunteer indexing and transcribing projects. We can index censuses, civil...
Was This My Ancestor’s Neighborhood? Using Google Earth for Genealogy
When Lisa blogged recently about Google Earth's 10th birthday, it reminded me of something on my family history "to...
Family History for Kids Starts WITH the Kids
Kids don't recall much of their young lives. But we as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles know their stories. We...
Genealogy meets Scrapbooking: Heritage Scrapbooking
As the host of the Genealogy Gems podcast, Lisa Louise Cooke spends a lot of time on the asking end of the microphone....
