Win Win Negotiations
or Better Yet, Win – Win – Win The person you best in a business situation in your twenties will turn out to be the one person who can help you solve a difficult business complication in your forties....
Read moreNaming Patterns for Women
The Maternal Line or the Umbilical Line Remember the Ladies! Maternal naming patterns are much harder to spot since surnames change on each marriage and every generation. Sometimes a pattern may become apparent by looking at a straight maternal...
Read moreMarriage Information in Manuscript Files
Good news is meant to be shared. Marriages are generally considered to be good news. Marriage records are a holy grail of genealogical research because they give up the maiden name (usually) of the bride, and possibly the parents...
Read moreSome People Pass Away
What’s only a date for your files, is a sad life event for the family. Genealogy is more than just dates and we sometimes forget that. Last week a friend of a good friend of mine passed away. The...
Read moreCommon Surnames – Research Hints
Researching Browns Sometimes it can’t be helped, while researching you come across a Brown line, a Wilson line or worse a Smith, Jones, or Johnson line. There it sits, blocking your way to more easily researched lines and relations....
Read moreThe Boulder Flood
My Genealogy Work Was Safe in the Cloud Three RAVES What a week or two! So we had a flood, a 100 year, 500 year or perhaps 1000 year flood. We were lucky to lose only what was in...
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