The Genealogy Attic

How Genealogy Helps You Know More About Your Family

Genealogy! Yes you heard it right. Is it not something related to genes is what your curious brain might be pondering on now. Well it indeed is. To define and describe technically, genealogy is the procedure of recording all the data regarding an individual’s or family’s descent or derivation. Any person could establish a proper… [Continue Reading]

Know your ancestry and descent by researching your genealogy

Genealogy can be described as a record of an individuals or families ancestry as well as descent. Interviews with members of family can provide you with firsthand accounts and eyewitness descriptions about events that took place in your family. You can base the interviews to guide you in proper direction and to confirm facts. Interviews… [Continue Reading]

Create and gift a genealogy book to relatives

Have you considered making a genealogy book of your family? It could be the most valuable gift you can present to family members and relatives. Some times we might not be able to trace back our ancestors more than a few generations. Still, a gift motivated by genealogy will be a treasure for the recipient.… [Continue Reading]

Genealogy Search

The Science Of Genealogy Surnames

Genealogy.surnames.ireland, a forum for queries about Irish ancestors. The purpose of the newsgroup soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland and its linked mailing list SURNAMES-IRELAND is to help genealogists contact others researching the same families in Ireland. The group covers both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Queries from genealogists living in any part of the world are welcome. [...]

Issues related to genealogy

I’d say try out one of the genealogy newsgroups (I lurk in soc.genealogy.computing, but there are lots of others) or one of the zillion other genealogy web sites. I think that the most important way to get and stay motivated to do genealogy work is to find what it is about that interests you and [...]

Genealogy affiliated programs

In article hud…@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:Maybe I haven’t been following the string closely enough, but I haven’t hardly seen any responses to the claim I posted refering to Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History and earlier writings that said that Joseph was the physical son of Jacob and the adopted-by-Jewish-law son of his dead uncle Heli The problem [...]

Genealogy programs and its benefits

The other solutions are less simple, and in some cases require one to presume that (2) Luke, whose Greek was excellent, somehow completely lost it when he got to writing genealogies. This seems implausible to me. All of the external evidence that I have seen that bears on this question is very late by comparison [...]

Mormon Genealogy

Vilna Gaon’s Genealogy

Rabbi Elijah of Vilna was Lithuania’s greatest Talmudic scholar and one of Judaism’s greatest spiritual and intellectual leaders of modern times. October 20th, 1997 marked the 200th anniversary of his death on the 19th Tishrei, 5558 (during the Festival of Sukkot). He was, because of his fame, known simply as The Vilna Gaon (Genius of [...]

The Genealogy Shelf

Genealogy Basics Online: A Step-By-Step Guide To Searching And Finding Your Ancestors On The Internet is a superb introduction for the novice genealogist on using the Internet as a tool in their genealogical research. Cherri Flinn draws upon her considerable experience and expertise to review genealogical websites and offer practical, time-saving tips for searching them. [...]

COMPUTERS & GENEALOGY

Genealogy conferences on bulletin boards are forums for discus- sion genealogical research. They are similar to the soc.genealogy newsgroups on Usenet, but are more focused, and it is easier to follow particular message threads. The International Genealogy Conference of Fidonet was started in South Africa, and is also the best place for southern Africa genealogists [...]

Best Genealogy forms

A question that has longed perplexed the readers of the New Testament concerns the differing genealogies of Jesus Christ recorded in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. At first glance, the impression is created that both accounts are tracing the family line of Jesus through His earthly father Joseph, in which case we would be faced [...]

Ancestry

How to host Genealogy Lists Options

On behalf of all the Genealogy List-owners and proponents of the soc.genealogy hierarchy this message is to inform you of one of the most exciting opportunities for Genealogy on the Internet since its inception. In February, we were notified of the impending demise of GATECH as a player in hosting mailing lists, including all the [...]

Basic facts about genealogy

Our goal over the next many months is to be able to bring all of Internet genealogy under one roof, provide many new tools to help us with our research and to show the world what the superhighway can do for this one area of interest, GENEALOGY. This is truly exciting and those of us [...]

The Basic Rules In Genealogy

The basic rule in genealogy is to go from what you know to what you don’t know. You establish a logical train of evidence. Documentary proof is important – you need to be able to show others that your research is sound. The farther back you go, the harder primary sources are to find, so [...]

Kinds Of Good Genealogy

Well, as someone whose family lines on both sides are LDS to at or near the founding of the church, I can tell you that it doesn’t guarantee that any kind of good genealogy work has been done. I’ve just started getting into it and the Ancestral Search (data submitted to the church) has a [...]