PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck

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PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck
#BioADay2022, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Biography, Death Records, Documents, FamilySearch, Google Maps, How To, How to Think, Names, Newspapers.com, Podcast, Podcast episode, Public Records, Research

First off, welcome back – to us all! Glad to be recording again. This season will be all about confirmation bias and the many ways it can get in the way of writing accurate life stories. My focus has been on FamilySearch in the past few years, so we’ll be talking about writing those Brief … Read More “PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck” »

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NEW: Weekly Lessons on Sundays via Zoom!

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NEW: Weekly Lessons on Sundays via Zoom!
Ancestry, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Facebook group, FamilySearch, How To, How to Think, Patreon, Reparational Genealogy, Zoom

Want to start learning the basics of how to use logic as well as rules to assemble a strong online family tree? It’s all happening! Starting April 7th at 7pm Eastern Time, I’m teaching a new series: How to Think About Genealogy. Collectively, we’ll examine problems and solutions in Ancestry and FamilySearch. Maybe we’ll work … Read More “NEW: Weekly Lessons on Sundays via Zoom!” »

AncestryDNA SALE – now through October 15

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Ancestry, DNA

AncestryDNA is having another sale, now through October 15. Grab your discount here:

YouTube: Please Subscribe!

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Accessible, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, YouTube, Zazzle

Hi all! I am inching my way toward new podcast episodes, but in the meantime, please subscribe to my YouTube channel. You’ll find all of my podcast episodes, with captioned for the hearing impaired. If you find a video that ISN’T captioned, let me know and you’ll get a surprise from my Zazzle shop! My … Read More “YouTube: Please Subscribe!” »

The Uvalde and Buffalo Victims Were EXPLOITED on Find-a-Grave. Please Sign the Petition

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Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Courtesy, Death Records, Find-a-Grave, How To

The exploitation of murdered adults and children for personal glorification by “grave collectors” (or ghouls) in the Buffalo and Uvalde shooting massacres are the tip of a very ugly iceberg in today’s genealogical circles. Find-a-Grave is haunted with ghouls. These ghouls are breaking multiple guidelines AND Federal copyright law, but Find-a-Grave and parent company Ancestry … Read More “The Uvalde and Buffalo Victims Were EXPLOITED on Find-a-Grave. Please Sign the Petition” »

PODCAST Ep 505: Family Cookbook – Deep Fried Biscuits and Homemade Apple Butter (transcribed)

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PODCAST Ep 505: Family Cookbook – Deep Fried Biscuits and Homemade Apple Butter (transcribed)
Family Cookbook, Podcast, Podcast episode, YouTube

Today’s episode is a Family Cookbook episode that I’ve wanted to make for quite a while. It features two of my favorite foods from the area where I went to college (and where MANY of my ancestors lived for over a century) – Deep Fried Biscuits and Homemade Apple Butter, from Indiana. See the below … Read More “PODCAST Ep 505: Family Cookbook – Deep Fried Biscuits and Homemade Apple Butter (transcribed)” »

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Birthday Fun: promote my YouTube channel! You could win groovy playing cards.

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Birthday Fun: promote my YouTube channel! You could win groovy playing cards.
gifts, Holidays, YouTube

Family Games by FPPPPodcast Help me to promote my YouTube channel, enter to win a deck of playing cards from my Zazzle shop. There are over 60 styles to choose from so far, and more coming!!! See bit.ly36RlbR9 (or the graphic above) for the growing number of designs. To enter: 1. Type “Happy Birthday to … Read More “Birthday Fun: promote my YouTube channel! You could win groovy playing cards.” »

PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom

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PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom
#BioADay2022, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Biography, Birth Records, Census, Death Records, DNA, Family Lore, Folklore, Marriage Records, My Discoveries, Names, Podcast episode, Research, YouTube

Here’s another biography I developed on my quest to achieve one biography per day on my platform of choice, FamilySearch. With each ancestor, I always start with the auto-generated Life Story on Ancestry, copy it and paste it in the LifeStory field on FamilySearch. Then, I augment it with facts from census, vital, and other … Read More “PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom” »

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