http://familytreetrace.com Your journey back in time starts here Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:29:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the benefit of hindsight I recently noticed a strange anomaly with the name George within the MAWER family. I had been posting new individuals onto my MAWER line and noticed that some families who named one of their sons George seemed to lose him and as they seemed dead set ... http://familytreetrace.com/2012/the-curse-of-the-name-george/ I don't know if anyone else dislikes the newest setup of the International Genealogical Index, but I do. I seemed to have a lot more success with the old style, finding ancestors I was looking for, place details which would help me in my search. Going back over some old family history ... http://familytreetrace.com/2011/new-style-igi-good-or-bad/ Familytreetrace.com    post I have been pondering lately just what I should do with all the information I have. Ideally it would be great to have it all published in book form but I just cannot visualize how it would all work out. I have around 27,500 people on my tree at ... http://familytreetrace.com/2011/final-destination-of-all-your-family-history-information/ I am always amazed by just how many new websites I find when I am trawling the net for Family History information. I am sure they have always been there, but it seems just lately that everytime I Google something I find a new site. Unfortunately for me, researching mostly UK ... http://familytreetrace.com/2011/helpful-sites/ Hi, my name is Jean and I am a Family History and Genealogy aholic! My downfall all began around 35 years ago when I got hold of some family documents and made my first tree, that was when I started to be hooked. I seemed to have it under control in the ... http://familytreetrace.com/2011/family-history-aholic/ Do you sometimes sit in front of your computer, wanting to get on with your Family History research, and you simply cannot make up your mind which line to look at? This is happening to me a bit lately and I don't like it. I have so many lines to follow, ... http://familytreetrace.com/2011/family-history-overload/ I have reached the stage where I have become a bit blase about constantly adding hundreds of names and dates to my family tree. I managed to slot into a titled family pedigree last year and from that connection my tree has just grown by literally thousands. I never believed ... http://familytreetrace.com/2011/151/ DON'T BE PUT OFF VISITING CEMETERIES OR GRAVEYARDs    3.4.09   Not used yet. I have visited a lot of cemeteries/graveyards in the 30 years I have been family history researching.  I have never felt spooked at all, I just feel as though I am visiting a relative.  In fact, I ... http://familytreetrace.com/2010/dont-be-put-off-visiting-cemeteries-or-graveyards/ That probably sounds like a weird thing to be asking on a family history blog and perhaps it is, but the thought crossed my mind quite some time ago. I am a bit on the fence about reincarnation - I would like to believe it is possible. It would be good ... http://familytreetrace.com/2010/do-you-believe-in-reincarnation/ How Much Information Can You Get From Certificates? August 2010 I can speak for British certificates, i.e. birth, marriage and death, although I am sure that the US and other countries will include the same details. On a Birth certificate for instance you are going to see the name of the child, the ... http://familytreetrace.com/2010/how-much-information-can-you-get-from-certificates/