by Jennifer Zinck | 26 March 2016 | General, Vital Records
Back in 2013 the genealogical community celebrated Halloween with pedigree death charts. This is the kind of thing we do for fun. I played along here. This week our friend J. Paul Hawthorne sparked a renewed interest in sharing of genealogical pedigrees, this time...
by Jennifer Zinck | 25 January 2016 | General, Photographs
This question comes up quite a bit in genealogy discussions. “If you find a picture on Find A Grave and you live too far away to take your own picture, is it legal to copy the picture?” As usual, there are statements like, “Why do they post the photo...
by Jennifer Zinck | 24 January 2016 | Cousins, DNA
My name is Jennifer and I am a cousin collector. My research plan this morning was to find a living descendant of my maternal grandmother’s brother, Tom. Tom had two sons, who my grandmother referred to as “Timmy and Tommy.” Within 30 minutes, I had...
by Jennifer Zinck | 18 November 2015 | DNA, Forensic Genealogy, General, Genetic Genealogy
“Mommy, Brother says I’m adopted!” I’ve heard that before, when my oldest son convinced my second son that he was adopted. It seems to be the thing for siblings to do. A decade later, when my second son tried it on his little sister, this mom was prepared. Come over...
by Jennifer Zinck | 15 November 2015 | General
Raw notes – Sale at the end. Katherine welcomed everyone to the ISOGG meeting. She gave some background on ISOGG and how it was founded. She showed photos of ISOGG members at booths or on outings in places such as Burbank, London, Dublin, and Glasgow. Katherine...
