Ancestry Explained

04 May

Posted at 11:52h in Ancestry Explained

GENEALOGY IS FUN- YOU CAN HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION President John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Nearly 30 years after his death, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration. The resulting Collection consists of more than 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts (approximately 2,000 cubic feet of records). Most of the records from the JFK Assassination Records Collection are open for research, and...

01 Jun

Posted at 18:13h in Ancestry Explained

ANCESTORS THAT DON'T LOOK A DAY OVER 112! World's Oldest Living Man Is Nearly 113, Has 41 Grandchildren and Enjoys a Popular Drink 'Every Day' This Venezuelan man is almost 113 years young! Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, who is 112 years and 355 days old as of Tuesday, was just named the oldest living man by Guinness World Records. "My dad is in very good health," daughter Nelyda Perez, one of his 11 children, told the record-keeping organization. "He does not suffer from any disease that requires medical treatment." "The whole family is very grateful," she added. The supercentenarian, who is the ninth of 10 children,...

24 Nov

Posted at 20:51h in Interviews, Ancestry Explained, Genealogy

Genealogist Dan Nelson and Dr. Terry Turner discuss where to start, African American genealogy, DNA research, and why those old family photographs matter. Family gatherings have a way of bringing old stories back to life. Around Thanksgiving, Christmas, reunions, and other celebrations, conversations often turn to parents, grandparents, old photographs, and relatives whose stories may never have been written down. On an episode of New Biz Buzz, host Leon Thomas sat down with professional genealogist Dan Nelson and family-history researcher Dr. Terry Turner to discuss genealogy, the importance of preserving family stories, and how anyone can begin discovering the people who came...

09 Jan

Posted at 13:18h in Ancestry Explained

HISTORY OFTEN REPEATS ITSELF! The news cycle keeps saying that the last time the U.S. Capitol was attacked was during the War of 1812. Not sure how or why they all missed discovering this occurrence. The last time the U.S. Capitol was attacked was in 1971. Ironically, the bombing was attributed to anti-war protestors upset over the bombing of Laos. Read the excerpt below on what was done to make sure the US. Capitol would not be subject to attack in the future       Ever hear of Jacob Leisler? I had not until coming across him in some recent research. In 1691, he was...

16 Feb

Posted at 05:15h in 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...

16 Dec

Posted at 06:56h in 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...

17 Nov

Posted at 07:03h in 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...

14 Oct

Posted at 06:21h in 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...

13 Oct

Posted at 03:55h in Ancestry Explained

Good morning possible cousins, Most of us grew up knowing we couldn’t and shouldn’t of even think of marrying our cousins.  Did we ever wonder why that was?  Did we assume that’s it’s always been like that? Back in the day, how far a man could ride on horseback was often the limit to whom he could choose to court.  For a boy to even meet a girl with future marriage in mind, she would have to attend his church as outside of immediate neighbors the folks you met at church were likely the only ones of marital age.  When folks moved...

20 Aug

Posted at 07:02h in Ancestry Explained

All, As successful people, one of your responsibilities is to not let your families pictures, stories, and historical documents be lost forever. You have the means to preserve those legacies forever in print and electronically. Don’t leave your legacy as a burden to your heirs. That’s often the missing piece to your estate planning efforts. You come up with a great plan for a distribution of your tangible assets, but does nothing for your intangible assets, your character, your families legacy.  When you think about your ancestors do you think about how they left money or such they left to so and...

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