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16 Practical Genealogy Gifts for Family History Lovers

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Looking for awesome genealogy gifts for Christmas for the Family History lover you know? Keep reading for great genealogy gift ideas. According to USA Today, Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the United States. I can understand why as I've spent time doing my own genealogy and family history research - it's addicting! You want to ...

Living DNA Review – What Makes It Different than Ancestry and 23andMe

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After taking both an AncestryDNA and 23andMe DNA test, I still decided to take a third DNA test, this time from Living DNA. Here's my Living DNA review and my reasons why I decided to take this one too. I love family history. It's so much fun to me to search for long-lost cousins, long since dead. I'm not sure why exactly. I guess I see it as a ...

Ancestry DNA Reviews – How to Use Them and What You Can Expect

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Interested in Ancestry DNA reviews? Here's what we thought about our Ancestry DNA tests. For Christmas 2016 I decided to buy my husband and myself from . They were running a 30% off sale and I had been wanting to try it out for some time. Mostly because I'm curious what it would show, though I know most of my ancestral roots via pretty detailed ...

Here’s What a 23andMe DNA Kit Will Reveal about You

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I received a free 23andMe DNA kit in exchange for this review. Opinions are my own. Knowing your family history is an important part of understanding who you are, why you are the way that you are, and gain some perspective. Understanding your own personal family history, and personal narrative is said to be a deciding factor in what helps ...

The Art of Family Storytelling and Why It’s Important

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Lately there has been something pressing on my mind, something that I feel I need to do for my children. I feel this way because I am understanding more and more the importance of family storytelling, both good bedtime storytelling and the telling of family history stories. There is power is in stories, especially true stories, and magic in their ...

Apparoo App of the Week – Blinkbuggy

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This post is sponsored by Apparoo. How do we always find time to post super-adorable kid pictures on Facebook, but somehow never get that long-planned baby book done? Well, guilt-trip no more thanks to... This week's Apparoo App of the Week: Blinkbuggy Blinkbuggy is an online baby book that puts all your photos, milestones and funny stories in ...

Family History Tools Part 2

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Earlier this year I wrote a post about Family History Tools I had been using in my research. Since then I have found some other useful tools that I would like to share with you.Ancestry.com is a wonderful site. I have signed up for their e-mail list. Sometimes they have free access week to some records (recently it was immigration records. ...

Family History Tools

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I have been doing a lot of Family History work over the last few months, and while I won't bore you with who I've found or what I have found out, I did want to share some useful tips with you that I have learned while searching.First, the main website I have been using is FamilySearch.org. It has lots of records from all around the world and it's ...