When my mother was 3 years old, she was living at the above address. When you lived in a rural area, you did not have street names and house numbers. All I had was this address I pulled from her baby book. A rural mail route is not something you can enter directly into the…
I thought I would create a quick video to demonstrate the methods I used to convert my generic “census” event in Legacy Family Tree to one that is based on the Year/Location of the census as I described in this post. In the video, I walk through creating a custom event, creating a search list of…
I have been sitting with my Legacy Family Tree file figuring out the best plan of attack for researching the 1940 U.S. Census. At first I was just going to run a query of all people living during that time that might be candidates for searching. This is fine, but since the 1940 census will…
I have been a FamilySearch Indexer for a few years, off andon. I must admit I don’t consistently takeadvantage of the opportunity to index records. Yes, I see this as more of help to me and my record education than whatit does for the genealogical community. Randy Seaver posted his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge…