SNGF: If I won the big Genealogy Prize

It is Saturday Night and Randy Seaver has challenged us to Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.  This week’s challenge:
1) If you won the grand prize in the Ancestry.com Ultimate Family History Journey Sweepstakes of $20,000 for genealogy travel to places of your choice, where would you go, and what would you do?
2) Tell us of your [...]

Genealogy vs Roots vs Ancestry

I was looking at the google trends for genealogy terms to see which ones were searched the most.  Also if there were country differences.   I chose three words:   “genealogy”, “roots” and “ancestry”.
What I found was interesting.   I noticed the “Genealogy” search term trend (blue line) has been drifting downwards rather significantly over the last [...]

Language of its own

Genealogy has a language of its own, and unlike most hobbies has more than its fair share of abbreviations.  It is quicker to record someone was ‘b.’ in 1850 and ‘d.’ in 1910 rather than using ‘born’ and ‘died’.  With the printing of family trees it makes it easier for one to include extensive information [...]