Category: Best Practices

Social Justice Sunday, September 12 – free class

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
Social Justice Sunday, September 12 – free class
Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Enslaving Ancestors, FamilySearch, History, How To, Join the Conversation, Learning, Names, Reparational Genealogy, Research, Teaching, Tips and Tricks, Zoom

This week, we’re working on the Nomini Hall Tree with LaTonya Lawson Jones. The audio simulcast will be on Clubhouse, but you really need to see what we’re doing to get it all. Here’s how to join on Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/join/reparational-genealogy/FQ43YoqA/M8B8vayJ

PODCAST Ep 407: A Zoom Class, Simulcast on Clubhouse!

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 407: A Zoom Class, Simulcast on Clubhouse!
Ancestry, Best Practices, Clubhouse, FamilySearch, How To, Podcast, Podcast episode, Reparational Genealogy, Zoom

At long last, a proper Zoom class! I’m holding my first class on September 5, 2021 at 3pm ET – cleaning trees in Ancestry, and the basics of FamilySearch, in order to get moving on transferring reparational trees (for those who want this service). If you attend, you’ll learn a lot of basics FOR FREE. … Read More “PODCAST Ep 407: A Zoom Class, Simulcast on Clubhouse!” »

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PODCAST Ep 405: All About Blogs with Lisa Lisson

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PODCAST Ep 405: All About Blogs with Lisa Lisson
#Blog2020, Best Practices, Blogging, Learning, Names, Patreon, Podcast, Podcast episode, Show Notes, Teaching, Tips and Tricks

Have you ever wondered what it takes to have a genealogy blog? Whether amateur or professional, blogging is a great way not only to publish family information, but to find information from others. Lisa Lisson, author of the “Are You My Cousin?” blog, stopped by for a chat last year and told me all about … Read More “PODCAST Ep 405: All About Blogs with Lisa Lisson” »

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PODCAST Episode 310: Announcement – Record Family Holidays on Zoom!

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PODCAST Episode 310: Announcement – Record Family Holidays on Zoom!
Best Practices, Family Lore, Folklore, Holidays, How To, Names, Podcast, Podcast episode

This is not an episode so much as an announcement: it’s holiday time and that means it’s time for taking folklore! But, with the increased need to stay home and separate, and with more people than ever relying on devices and video chat to communicate with family, why not see this as an opportunity to … Read More “PODCAST Episode 310: Announcement – Record Family Holidays on Zoom!” »

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PODCAST Episode 308: Interview with Brian Sheffey about AncestryDNA

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PODCAST Episode 308: Interview with Brian Sheffey about AncestryDNA
Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Practices, DNA, Enslaving Ancestors, Patreon, Podcast, Podcast episode, Reparational Genealogy, Research

This episode is super-sized, because the topic is that important: racism in genealogy and the new AncestryDNA policy that will eliminate all matches below 8cM for all users. I mention the multiple hacks and security breaches on genealogy and DNA websites within the past week, too. But more than anything, this episode allows my cousin, … Read More “PODCAST Episode 308: Interview with Brian Sheffey about AncestryDNA” »

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VIDEO: Retain your <9cM matches on AncestryDNA before they disappear in early August...

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Ancestry, Best Practices, DNA

…do this!

Your Distant AncestryDNA Matches Are Under Threat. Act NOW.

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
Your Distant AncestryDNA Matches Are Under Threat. Act NOW.
#Blog2020, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Evidence, Best Practices, DNA, Reparational Genealogy

Wow, is Ancestry DNA’s new policy to cut matches ever bad! If you’re a foster, foundling, adoptee, or of mixed ethnicity, you need EVERY MATCH to triangulate and find clues through fallen branch trees. A centimorgan (cM) is a unit of measure in DNA. The greater the number of centimorgans you share with someone, the … Read More “Your Distant AncestryDNA Matches Are Under Threat. Act NOW.” »

PODCAST Episode 307: The Conversation in Specifics – Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too (with transcript)

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 307: The Conversation in Specifics – Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too (with transcript)
Accessible, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Biography, Blogging, DAR, Enslaving Ancestors, Facebook group, History, How To, Join the Conversation, Learning, My Discoveries, Names, Patreon, Podcast, Podcast episode, Reparational Genealogy, Research, Show Notes, YouTube

This is the soundtrack of the YouTube video I released on June 10th, combined with some further explanations and discourse in reference to Reparational Genealogy. It contains challenges to White American genealogists to use social media platforms to start to publicize the facts about their slaveholding ancestors. For those White American genealogists whose ancestors didn’t … Read More “PODCAST Episode 307: The Conversation in Specifics – Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too (with transcript)” »

Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, too – let’s do the work, my white genealogy family (YouTube video)

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Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, too – let’s do the work, my white genealogy family (YouTube video)
Accessible, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Evidence, Best Practices, DNA, Enslaving Ancestors, FamilySearch, Join the Conversation, Patreon, Reparational Genealogy, Research, Twitter, YouTube

This is about what I’m doing right now in Reparational Genealogy, what you can do, and how you can help me help others. As white genealogists, we have a better opportunity than any in history to get honest about how we and our ancestors benefited from black chattel slavery in the United States. We have … Read More “Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, too – let’s do the work, my white genealogy family (YouTube video)” »

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