I've been working on this new header for about a week now, but it is so much more than just my header. The roots below ground branch off to include over 1000 ancestors on both sides of my ancestral tree, and the deepest roots trace back to my 10X great grandparents. The numbers on each root represent one ancestor. And....added my Genealogy Humor page today with 22 funny sayings to start with.
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Over Thanksgiving weekend 2017, I decided to do some research into how to pronounce French Names and Places. This information can be found under the header: Ancestry Forms, and also under MAPS and PLACES: FRANCE.
I also found more information on several ancestors, and will be adding this new information soon. When I logged on to weebly this Mother's Day morning, I see that I had 25 visitors yesterday, 50 this week, and over 600 pages viewed this week. How awesome!
My friend let me use her Ancestry account today, I typed in my biological grandmother's name, and I was so surprised to see new information about her. I have known my biological mother's and grandmother's name for 6 years now. My biological mother and her brother were adopted too, but I could never find information about her between the time she was born, and when she died. I could never find information about my biological grandfather, until I found it today! His name is Donald F. Gower.
At this time, I can't find any other information about him other than when he was born, when he Married my biological grandmother, and when he died, but I will continue to investigate. I have added this information under 3rd Generation. He lived and died in Bay City, Michigan. Born in 1925 and died in 1981. The name Gower even matches with one relative on 23andme.com, but I haven't contacted the relative yet about my new find. So interesting! 39 visitors this week with 830 page views. This makes me happy. I believe it's time to start adding some new information. My son's 23andme results were posted this week too. I now have 1457 relatives on 23andme. Ty has 1416 relatives.
6 Hidden search tips to help locate your ancestors
Apply Quotation Marks Also known as a string search limits search results in Google. When you type a name like Dorothy Gregory, Google will search the entire title and test on pages for those terms. They do not need to be related to each other, so you may turn up a page with Dorothy and Gregory, but not necessarily a page where these terms appear together. Use “Dorothy Gregory” or Gregory, Dorothy” to limit results (remember that many genealogy related sites place the last name first). Also apply Quotations around terms like “Obituary” to make them exact, otherwise Google will substitute other words like ‘death’ or ‘died’. This can be helpful in some situations, but for others can be a big hassle and turn up many unwanted results. Use the Minus Sign Many times when we search for ancestors, especially common names, we find that a certain person or location we are not looking for turns up again and again, clouding results. For instance, Dorothy Gregory who lived in Louisiana keeps coming up in our search. She is not the person we are looking for, so we can exclude the term Louisiana. Place a minus sign before a term to exclude these unwanted results. For example: “gregory, dorothy” 1930 Bay City -Louisiana). The minus sign can be placed in front of many terms to refine results. (-California -Louisiana -1907) or term strings (-Gregory, Dorothy K”). Just make sure the minus sign is placed directly before the term with no space in between. This works to exclude specific sites as well (-myheritage). Get Site Specific Results If you would like to get search results only for a specific website such as FamilySearch, use ‘site:SITEURL’ before a term or terms to do this. For example: site:familysearch.org ”gregory,dorothy” No space between “site” and the url. No need for ‘http://www’ either. Search only Page Titles Search only web page titles by using ‘allintitle:’ Example: allintitle: “Gregory, Dorothy.” You can also search only the text, and exclude titles by using ‘allintext:’ Search a Date Range Search multiple dates at one time without having to enter them individually. This is very helpful if you are looking for birth, marriage or death records but do not know the exact date of the event. Add DATE..DATE to your search box to accomplish this. Two periods between the dates. For example: 1930..1948 We know that Dorothy Gregory was born in 1930 This will bring up only pages that include one or all of the dates 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, and so on to 1948. Exclude any date by typing -DATE, such as -1929 after our other terms. Search Terms Near each other There is a way to ask Google to find terms near each other. Enter AROUND(1) between terms to do this. For example, “Dorothy Gregory” AROUND(10) 1930. Google will look for pages where the exact name Dorothy Gregory appears within 10 words of the date 1930. You can change the modifying number to anything you want. (”Dorothy Gregory” AROUND(3) 1930 or “Dorothy Gregory AROUND(1) James) A lower number means a closer association, which usually has fewer results. You can apply this to multiple terms. Example: “Gregory, Dorothy” AROUND(10) James AROUND(5) 1930 This is a Great way to help you find more relevant results. I see that 35 visitors have visited my site this week, visiting 534 of my pages. I know I can pay to see what pages they are visiting, and what keywords brought them to my site, but I see no reason to do that since this is just an informational website. So I am just wondering what I can do or say to have my visitors say hi, and introduce themselves. Do we have an ancestor or ancestors in common? Anybody? Any suggestions?
I just added Blank Census Forms from 1790 thru 1940. These will hopefully help others read some of the Census Forms they find. I tried to upload them as .pdf files, but was unable to do so, so I added them as .jpg files. This information can be found under the header "Ancestry Forms". Simply click on the census form you would like more information on, and a larger image will come up. If you need me to send you a .pdf file, you can email me at [email protected]
Over the weekend, I went through all the Generation Pages and changed the way they looked.: The color of the headers, and added numbers and information. I also have information on "dit names". I will be adding this information under a new heading at the top called 'Additional Information'. But for now, here is the information:
Ancestry Composition tells what percent of your DNA comes from each of 31 Populations worldwide. This analysis includes DNA you received from all of your recent ancestors, on Both sides of your family. The results reflect where your ancestors lived before the wide- spread migrations of the past few hundred years. 23andme.com provided this information for me after having my DNA analyzed. I have learned so much from this website. I used their information, and made my own charts.
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