This week’s recommendation – Genealogy Gems!
For those of you interested in genealogy blogs, I would recommend reading Lisa Louis Cooke’s blog found here. She has regular updates about new resources available online for genealogists (in her most recent blog she mentions a new app titled […]
Brick Wall Problem Solving
Lynne Holland’s 3/2/2017 genealogy presentation “Breaking Through Brick Walls” can be found here – Breaking Through Brick Walls in PDF format.
If you have any issues opening the presentation, please email or call Mike Gorzka (mgorzka@curtislibrary.com 725-5242, ext. 218) or Liz […]
Genealogy Get-Together Presentations
These downloadable presentations — Genetic Genealogy and Getting More from FamilySearch — were provided by Lynne Holland from the first two February Genealogy Get-togethers at Curtis Memorial Library. If you weren’t able to attend they provide a great overview of the classes.
Click here to download Genetic Genealogy.
Search versus Research
The webinar that I took today was about becoming a “genealogy detective”. Essentially it focused on some of the more advanced tools that genealogists can employ to finding missing facts and ancestors.
My favorite point was when the speaker talked about the […]
Tips to Help Organize
I just took a webinar about organizing your genealogy research, something that I know is challenging for everyone doing genealogy. I think it is even more challenging in the digital world because I’m never sure whether I should be saving paper […]
Collections of the Maine Historical Society
Curtis Memorial Library’s Genealogy Room contains both genealogy information and information on local history. We find, though, that we fluctuate on just what we mean by local. Does it refer to New England? Maine? Cumberland County? But we don’t want to leave out resources from […]