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Discovering your family's history and legacy is both exciting and time-consuming. Dancestors Genealogy focuses on the time-consuming parts so you can focus on the exciting part! We help you make sense of your disorganized boxes of family photos. By bringing them to life, we help you understand the story of how your family came to be what it is today. We also provide extensive research as it applies to your family's history, ancestry, and archives. Through this information, we'll develop an exquisite Narrative Family Legacy book. Are you looking for more insight into your family?
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Good morning mortals,
We're having to spend a lot more time thinking about our mortality. Remember the survival rate is 98.5%, so we should be thinking about life beyond this difficult time. However, thinking about your mortality isn't all bad, as it causes us to do a better job with our estate planning, health-care, long-term housing choices, and most importantly to us here at Dancestors, capturing your families story! Call us today and we will help you get one of these items off of your to-do list and also get your #1 gift ready for Christmas 2021!
What really killed them?
One of...
Posted at 15:07h
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Coronavirus is dominating the news. What used to scare folks?
The picture above shows my Great Uncle Ralph on the big horse with his brothers Luther, and my Grandpa Virgil on the pony. The picture to left shows brothers Luther, Virgil, Clifford, and baby James. Baby James died of measles in May 1921, and Ralph the oldest died 3 months later of typhoid fever in August 1921. That was a rough summer for the family, but it was not an uncommon story back in the day. If you are curious about how your family members passed away, Dancestors can find out...
Posted at 05:15h
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Ancestry Explained
Good morning fellow descendants,
I recall a cousin of my mom’s years ago, asking, “so when do you say you’re done with your search? When you get back to Adam and Eve?”
That is a good question, as a lot of folks like me research their family history, collecting thousands of pages of material, pictures, and documents. If you don’t take steps to say, “Ok, I could find more, but I am at the point, where I need to bring some closure, and put the materials in a format where they can be enjoyed and will survive for future generations.”
If you don’t ever...
Posted at 23:44h
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Good morning readers and now listeners,
Don’t forget to listen in every other Saturday at 1 PM CST to the “Live Your True Life” Family Historian segment on the Ashley Berges show on KBTD 1160-AM in Dallas on the USA Radio Network or look up Ashley Berges on Facebook where the show is live.
Listen to me on Spreaker at http://www.spreaker.com/user/ashleyberges
Check out the website: www.ashleyberges.com
The segment starts on January 25th. If you miss the show, the segments will be available as podcasts on our website at www.dancestorsgenealogy.com or on our YouTube channel Dancestors Genealogy, or at Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-your-true-life-perspectives-with-ashley-berges/id839257367
The first few segments will be mostly background,...
Posted at 07:13h
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Good morning fellow skin-wearers,
Have you ever heard of "Anthropodermic Bibliopegy"? I hadn’t either, but I can assure you it is not a binding option for our beautiful Dancestors Genealogy books!
Skin-bound books may sound like weird artifacts that belong in Evil Dead movies or Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. But from the 1600s to 1800s, these suede-like tomes were less necromancy, more commemorative plate. And converting yourself into human moleskin upon kicking the bucket made for a heartfelt present.
The pre-anesthesia surgery blog “The Chirurgeon's Apprentice” has a charming overview of the history of "anthropodermic bibliopegy," or the process of binding books with human skin.
Although this process sounds gruesome to...
Posted at 03:53h
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Good morning to all of you who now have the benefit of 2020 vision,
This is the time of year where we make our New Year’s resolutions. One of the common resolutions is to get organized. Get rid of the clutter. Dancestors Genealogy can help with that by taking that “box or boxes” of old photos, historical documents, stories, charts, and family nick-nacks and turn it all into a beautiful heirloom book that sits on the coffee table vs. being tucked away on a closet shelf.
Here’s a recent link from Popular Science that shows you how to get your photos, old or...
Posted at 06:56h
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Ancestry Explained
Good morning preservers of the family legacy,
A lot of times folks ask us how to preserve their family heirlooms. Of course, our first advice is to capture a digital record of the heirloom and let’s then put that picture into Your Dancestors ancestry book, so you have it stored somewhere else. Here’s some advice from an insurance company:
https://www.farmers.com/learn/plan-and-prep/ideas-for-protecting-heirlooms/
Some updates on the use of DNA to solve crimes:
Police were cracking cold cases with a DNA website. Then the fine print changed.
“There are cases that won’t get solved or will take longer to solve,” a Florida law enforcement official said.
https://apple.news/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-genealogy-dna-database-criminal-investigations/
While being the family historian...
Posted at 23:17h
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Good morning fellow shoppers,
I hope you and your family are in good spirits and health as we find ourselves in the 2019 holiday season.
By the time you read this, you will have already enjoyed a big plate of food, gave thanks, and hopefully spent time with your loved ones, family, and friends, and you survived Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday!
After so many years of trying to purchase thoughtful and creative presents for your loved ones, do you find yourself feeling like “you didn’t quite hit the mark” when it came to the uniqueness and personalization of your...
Posted at 07:03h
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Ancestry Explained
Good morning mortals,
With my profession, I read more obituaries than most folks. None of us like to think about how someone is going to explain what we did during the “dash” as in John Smith lived from XXXX – YYYY. Unless you’re a serious planner, likely someone will have to write one for you. Have you ever wondered, who writes them?
Obit writers: Deadly serious about their craft
At ObitCon, members of the Society of Professional Obituary Writers talk about the privilege of honoring lives well-lived. Mo Rocca reports on the annual gathering of obit writers, and their awards ceremony, where they...
Posted at 06:21h
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Ancestry Explained
Good morning to the living (who get the other 363 days),
I’ve included below the link and Wikipedia article for Days of the Dead for further knowledge. This year the Days of the Dead are celebrated from October 31st until November 2nd. Of course, we all know what day falls into that span- Halloween! Halloween’s icons include the black clad witches upon their brooms as some of us grew up seeing in the Wizard of Oz.
It made me wonder how many witches or witchcraft stories exist in our family histories?
So I did an inventory, and I thought you’d be interested in...
