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Keeping up with the enormous number of documents and images from Ancestry and other pay sites can be = overwhelming. Attendees will learn how to use a simple but effective process to see at a glance what items have been downloaded, or what documents have been entered into a genealogy program that doesn’t sync with…
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The journey started with at-DNA results of distant cousin matches and admixture estimates that evolved over time and began converging on a narrow yet unknown ancestral path, followed by more at-DNA testing and then the Big Y-DNA test, which uncovered a patrilineal MPE. A detailed review of the discovery timeline and of the documentary, methodological,…
Lunch and Learn – Exploring Our Society Research Resources
Come and Explore the Research Resource section of the Society website. Learn what resources we have available to help you learn more about your ancestors. Click on the image to view the webinar recording The video can be viewed in fullscreen by clicking on the expand icon (four diagonal arrows) in the black video control…
Scrapbooks – A Genealogist’s Gold Mine
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Remembering The Fallen
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