Genea-Musings "Best" Posts

These are my own subjective lists of "Best of Genea-Musings" based on perceived blog quality and relevance:

1)  2021 (Randy's "Best of " Genea-Musings Posts in 2021):

*  Randy's Genealogy Activity Highlights for 2020 (31 December 2020)
*  Randy's Best Genealogy Research Discoveries in 2020 (4 January 2021)

*  Dear Randy - "What is Your Work Flow With An Ancestry Hint?" (13 January 2021)

*  Received My Second FOREVER Box Back With 29 Digitized Home Movies (20 January 2021)

*  Painting My Ancestral Chromosome Map - Post #1 (3 February 2021)

*  My Day 1 At RootsTech Connect 2021 (25 February 2021)

*  My Day 2 at RootsTech Connect 2021 (26 February 2021)

*  My Day 3 at RootsTech Connect 2021 (27 February 2021)

*  RootsTech Connect 2021 Genealogy Blog Compendium - Updated (4 March 2021)

*  Using Ancestor Explorer for WikiTree to Generate an Ancestor List and Map (8 March 2021)

*  What Is the Maiden Name of Ann (--?--) Seaver (1807-????)? - Part 7 (10 March 2021)

*  Downloading My AncestryDNA Match List With Google Sheets (17 March 2021)

*  Uploaded a New GEDCOM to MyHeritage, and Created a 10-Generation Fan Chart (7 April 2021)

*  Revisiting My "To Be Filed" Folder - Some "Goodies" (14 April 2021)

*  MyHeritage Family Tree Statistics - My April 2021 Tree (28 April 2021)

*  Researcher Beware - Sometimes the AncestryDNA ThruLines Are Wrong (3 May 2021)

*  Dear Randy - How Many DNA Matches From Your 3rd Great-Grandparents Do You Have by ThruLines in AncestryDNA? (5 May 2021)

*  My 4th Great-Grandparent AncestryDNA ThruLines Matches (12 May 2021)

*  Dear Randy: How Do You Deal With Ancestry Hints? (18 May 2021)

*  Genealogy Book Review: "Call Me John," by Michael Schoenholtz (28 May 2021)

*  Dear Randy: What Are the Most Useful Online Record Collections For Your Research? (2 June 2021)

*  Ancestry.com and Your Ancestry Member Tree (4 August 2021)

*  One More Common Ancestor for an FTDNA Match Found! (18 August 2021)

*  Finally, a Descendants Chart I Can Use! Thank You, MyHeritage! (25 August 2021)

*  Down the Rabbit Hole - High School Yearbook Pictures (8 September 2021)

*  My Updated AncestryDNA Leeds Method Chart (15 September 2021)

*  Updated AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate (September 2021) (19 September 2021)

*  Down the Rabbit Hole Again - Kari Larsdtr Leland's 1901 Death and Burial Record (28 September 2021)

*  RootsMagic Version 8 Released - First Look! (30 September 2021)

*  Exploring RootsMagic 8 - #1 - the Main Screens (3 October 2021)

*  Exploring RootsMagic 8 - #2: People Screen, Edit Person, Enter Data (6 October 2021)

*  Exploring RootsMagic 8 - #3: People Screen, Edit Person, Create a Source Citation (12 October 2021)

*  Down the Rabbit Hole - Helping a Seaver Descendant (13 October 2021)

*  I Now Have 15 MyHeritageDNA Theories of Family Relativity (20 October 2021)

*  If You Could Change One Thing About the Genealogy Industry, What Would It Be? (3 November 2021)

*  Disproving an AncestryDNA ThruLine (3 November 2021)

*  RootsMagic Version 8 Progress in the Genealogy Cave (11 November 2021)

*  Dear Randy: Should I Use FamilySearch Family Tree as My Main Genealogy Database? (17 November 2021)

*  Rabbit Hole Genealogy Fun - Death Record of Irene Albina Marano in Capestrano, Italy (1 December 2021)

*  Rabbit Holes With Randy - 1871 Birth Record for Maria Loreta Cerasoli in Capestrano, Italy on FamilySearch (8 December 2021)

*  Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Wiltshire Probate Records (15 December 2021)

*  Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Finding Probate Records For My Ancestors Using Record Hints on Ancestry.com (22 December 2021)

2)  2020 (Randy's "Best of" Genea-Musings Posts in 2020):

*  Randy's Genealogy Activity Highlights for 2019 (1 January 2020)

*  General Society of Mayflower Descendants Application Process - Step 1 (21 January 2020)

*  Using MyHeritage Record Matches By Source to Enrich my Family Tree Profiles (5 February 2020)

*  MyHeritage In Color™ Launched - Colorize Your Black and White Photos (12 February 2020)

*  Randy's RootsTech Recap - Day 1 (Wednesday) (29 February 2020); - Day 2 (Thursday) (29 February 2020); - Day 3 (Friday) (29 February, 2020); - Day 4 (1 March 2020)

*  The GeneaBloggers Lifetime Achievement Award (2 March 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "What is the Best Way to Refresh My Online Trees?" (11 March 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "What Do You Add To Your Family Tree For DNA Matches?" (18 March 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How do I Create a List of Persons Who died in 1918 in RootsMagic?" (25 March 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Do You Keep Track of What You Write or Post?" (15 April 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "Why Do You Add Alternate Names To Your Family Tree?" (29 April 2020)

*  The Evolution of Obtaining Genealogy Record Images (6 May 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Do I Cite My Autosomal DNA Test Results?"  (6 May 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "Why Don't I Recognize More Surnames of My DNA Matches?" (13 May 2020)

*  Did Sarah Giberson Marry Two Seaver Men? - Part I (18 May 2020), - Part II (20 May 2020), and - Part III (25 May 2020)

*  Dear Randy - "Why Do You Use FamilySearch Family Tree?" (28 May 2020)

*  Checking Out the WikiTree "Ancestor Listmaker" App (3 June 2020)

*  Finding Richmans, Richs, and Marshmans in the Hilperton Land Tax Assessment Records, 1773-1793 - Part I and - Part II (22 June 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Far Back Have You Traced Your Ancestry? It Depends!" (24 June 2020)

*  Where Are the "Holes" In My Pedigree Chart? Can DNA Help? - Post 1 (1 July 2020) and Post 2 (2 July 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Many Details Do You Add To a Family Tree Profile?" (6 July 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Do You Plan To Pass On Your Genealogy Life's Work?" - Post 1 (21 July 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "Can You Combine Three Ancestry Trees Into One Using RootsMagic?" (12 August 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Can I Find Living Descendants with the Surname of a Historical Person?" (19 August 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Do You Write Your 52 Ancestors Posts?" (2 September 2020)

*  Finding the FamilySearch Family Tree Watchlist and a Surprise or Two! (15 September 2020)

*  Lucky Find: 1928 Photograph of Great-Grandmother Georgianna (Kemp) Auble With Her Siblings (16 September 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Do You Match and Update FamilySearch Family Tree Profiles?" (30 September 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "Who Are Your Mayflower 1620 Ancestors?" (28 October 2020)

*  Mining the Newspapers.com Obituary Index Record Hints on Ancestry (1 November 2020)

*  How I Use Genealogy Software and Online Family Trees (11 November 2020)

*  Tuesday's Tip - Check Out FamilySearch's Famous Relatives Page (17 November 2020)

*  Mining the MyHeritage Newspaper Collections - Finding a 1939 Annie (Richmond) Pickford Obituary (18 November 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "Why Do I Have So Few Known Common Ancestors in My DNA Matches?" (1 December 2020)

*  Update on The Early New England Families (1641-1700) Study Project (8 December 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Do You Manage To Do All You Do?" (9 December 2020)

*  Dear Randy: "How Do You Make That Descendant List in Your 52 Ancestors Posts?" (16 December 2020)

3)  2019 (Randy's "Best" Genea-Musings Posts in 2019):

*  Using GeneticAffairs.com to Create DNA Match AutoClusters - Part I: Getting The Clusters (13 January 2019)

*  Dear Ancestry.com: Are You Fixing These Problems? (17 January 2019)  NOTE:  They Did!!

*  A Reader's Take on Ancestry.com Problems - Part I - Ancestry Member Tree Indexing (23 January 2019)

*  A Reader's Take on Ancestry.com Problems - Part II - Ancestry Search Engine Problems (30 January 2019)

*  Using GeneticAffairs.com to Create DNA Match AutoClusters - Part 2: The Cluster Graphic (5 February 2019)

*  A Reader's Take on Ancestry.com Problems - Part III - Reduced Number of New Record Collections (6 February 2019)

*  Using GeneticAffairs.com to Create DNA Match AutoClusters - Part 3: Using the Cluster Information (12 February 2019)

*  A Reader's Take on Ancestry.com Problems - Part IV: The Ancestry Big Tree (13 February 2019) 

*  A Reader's Take on Ancestry.com Problems - Part V: Why Is There No Chromosome Browser? (20 February 2019)

*  Using the AncestryDNA ThruLines™ Feature to Find Common Ancestors (27 February 2019)

*  Working With the MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity™ (2 March 2019)

*  MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity™ is Imperfect - Be Careful! (3 March 2019)

*  Using the New Ancestry DNA Matching Tools Features (5 March 2019)

*  Can AncestryDNA's ThruLines Find Cousins From Potential Ancestors? (6 March 2019)

*  AncestryDNA ThruLines Feature Is Imperfect - An Example - UPDATED (12 March 2019)

*  Dear Randy: How Do I Get a Descendants Chart on FamilySearch Family Tree? (13 March 2019)

*  Guest Post: If You Don't Look at the Original Record, You're Missing Out! (19 March 2019)

*  Dear Randy - Newbies Need to Be Warned! (31 March 2019)

*  Sorting Out My Thomas J. Newtons (1 April 2019)

*  Dear Randy: Should I Change to a Different Program, and/or Put My Tree Online? (3 April 2019)

* Seeing AncestryDNA ThruLines From Your Ancestry Member Tree Pedigree Chart (19 April 2019)




















4)  2018 (Randy's Choice for Best Posts):
*  Dear Randy - You Really Should Check the Probate Record Indexes! (29 December 2017)

*  Dear Randy: Where Can I Find the Will of Thomas Carter (1585-1652)? (8 January 2018)

*  A Ray of DNA Hope for my Lamphier/Lanfear Mystery (16 January 2018)

*  Visited the San Diego FamilySearch Library Today (24 January 2018)

*  Dear Randy: How do I attach a PDF document to a person in RootsMagic like I do with photos? (31 January 2018)


*  Dear Randy: Can I Print a Pedigree Chart of my Ancestry Member Tree? (21 February 2018)

*  Getting Started With RootsFinder - Part 1: Program Menu Items (21 February 2018) and Getting Started With RootsFinder - Part 2: Family Tree Profiles (22 February 2018)

*  RootsTech 2018 Potpourri - My Baker's Dozen Takeaways (5 March 2018)

*  Checking Out Findmypast's New Global Tree (6 March 2018)

*  Dear Randy: Why Do You Use U.S. Census Sources from Ancestry.com Rather than FamilySearch? (14 March 2018)


*  Dear Randy: Why Do You Write About Your Personal Genealogy Research? (21 March 2018)

*  Dear Randy: How do you find the time to research, live life, and do all those posts? (28 March 2018)

*  Do I Still Need a Desktop Genealogy Software Program? (10 April 2018)

*  Dear Randy: "What is the Best Way to Make These Bible Records Known?" (18 April 2018)

*  Are There Search Problems on Ancestry.com? - UPDATED (25 April 2018) and Reader Comments on Ancestry Search Problems (1 May 2018) and More Ancestry.com Search Problems (7 May 2018)

*  Dear Randy: How Do You Search For Records on Ancestry.com? (2 May 2018)

*  Changes to Mining Ancestry.com Hints by Specific Record Collection (16 May 2018)

*  Finding Devier J. Lamphear Smith's Parents - Part I: DNA Trails (29 May 2018)

*  Using the RootsMagic "Duplicate Search Merge" Tool (6 June 2018)

*  Ancestry.com Suggests "Potential Ancestors" For your Ancestry Member Tree (19 June 2018)

*  Searching the Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants Collection on AmericanAncestors (20 June 2018)

*  Sorting Out the Henry A. White Deeds in Killingly, Connecticut (17 July 2018)

*  Dear Randy: How Do You Deal With "Possible" Ancestors? (18 July 2018)

*  My Updated AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate (22 August 2018) and   AncestryDNA Updates Ethnicity Estimates for Everybody, But ...My Wish List (12 September 2018)

*  FamilySearch Family Tree Person Page Changes (5 September 2018)

*  Using MedBetter DNA to Show My AncestryDNA Notes (26 September 2018)

*  Ancestry Search Quirk - "County and Adjacent Counties" Filter Doesn't Work (2 October 2018)

*  The Power of an Ancestry.com Search From the Member Tree (10 October 2018)

*  Down the Rabbit Hole: Finding Maggie's Grandparents (24 October 2018)

*  How Many of my AncestryDNA Matches Have Attached Trees? (29 October 2018)

*  How Accurate Is an Ancestry Quick and Dirty Tree? (5 November 2018)

*  Good News and Bad News On Ancestry Member Tree Searches (12 November 2018)

*  All MyHeritage LIVE! 2018 Classes Available on Family Tree Webinars Site for FREE (28 November 2018)

*  Where Am I Saving My Digitized Family Photos? (4 December 2018)

*  Dear Randy - Why Do You Write the 52 Ancestors Friday Posts? (12 December 2018)

*  Using SmartCopy Chrome Extension to Add Families to the Geni World Tree (27 December 2018)

5)  2017 (Randy's Choice for Best Posts):




























* Baiting the Genealogy Hook (23 August 2017)

6)  2016 (Randy's Choice for Best Posts):

 *  Dear Randy: How Do You Use Your Smartphone to Do Genealogy? (11 January 2016)

*  Thinking About My Descendancy Research Plan (19 January 2016)

*  Standardized Historical and Current Place Names - Post 1 (26 January 2016); Post 2: Two Potential RootsMagic Solutions (27 January 2016); Post 3: An Elegant Solution (28 January 2016)

*  My Day at the Family History Library - 2 February 2016 (3 February 2016)

*  12 Takeaways from the RootsTech 2016 Conference (10 February 2016)

*  Hmmm. There are Still No Standards for Names in Family Trees (15 February 2016)

*  Searching Newspaper Records on Findmypast (18 February 2016)

*  Does the Ancestry Member Tree Index "Prune" Trees? (18 February 2016)

*  Adding a Life Sketch to the FamilySearch Family Tree (3 March 2016)

*  Finding MyHeritage Record Collection Lists (4 March 2016)

*  Finding a Maiden Name, and More, for Mary (--?--) (Breck) Plimpton (9 March 2016)

*  A Kirby Family Genealogical Windfall From Susanne (17 March 2016)

*  Ancestry.com has Added "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000" Database (14 April 2016)

*  Using Diane Boumenot's Rhode Island Probate File Index (19 April 2016)

*  Using RootsMagic and FamilySearch to Update My MyHeritage Family Tree (27 April 2016)

*  Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 1: Finding Elizabeth's Will (25 April 2016);   Post 2: Transcription of Elizabeth Auble's Will (28 April 2016); Post 3: Identifying Elizabeth Auble's Heirs (29 April 2016); Post 4: The William Auble Challenges (3 May 2016);   Post 5: The Sophia Auble Challenges Part 1 (5 May 2016);  Post 6: Solving the William Auble Challenge (6 May 2016);  Post 7: Sophia Auble's Descendants (10 May 2016);  Post 8: Nathan Auble's Descendants (17 May 2016);  Post 9: Was Sarah Auble Elizabeth's Sister? (24 May 2016);  Post 10: The Strubles (10 June 2016)

*  Mining Ancestry.com Hints by Specific Record Collection - Updated (2 May 2016)

*  Using Puzzilla to Visualize My Auble Family Tree Research (9 May 2016)

*  You Should Browse Probate Records on Ancestry.com - Don't Rely on Only the Index (18 May 2016)

*  Dear Randy -- How Do You Put a Census Extraction In Your RootsMagic Database? (19 May 2016)

*  Ten Takeaways From the #SCGS2016 Genealogy Jamboree (7 June 2016)

*  Creating a MyHeritage "Sun Chart" (15 June 2016)

*  Dear Randy: How Did You Figure Out Those Relationships on WikiTree? (17 June 2016)

*  Making Ancestor and Descendant Reports in Geni.com (29 June 2016)

*  Shaky Leaves and All - Are They Useful? (7 July 2016)

*  Dear Randy: How Can I Import FamilySearch Family Tree Persons Into RootsMagic? (18 July 2016)

*  Finding Elling Eriksen Natvig's Land in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin (1 August 2016)

*  My Top Ten Genealogy Research "Programs" (16 August 2016).

*  Adding Descendant Information the Easy Way - Post 1: Importing it From FamilySearch Family Tree (25 August 2016); Post 2: Importing it to an Ancestry Member Tree (26 August 2016); Post 3: Stimulating Hints in the Ancestry Member Tree (31 August 2016)

*  Dear Randy: What is Your Workflow to Move Ancestry Member Tree Hints Into RootsMagic? (19 September 2016)

*  How Accurate Are Ancestry.com Hints? (20 September 2016)

*  Status of Land and Probate Records on FamilySearch (22 September 2016)

*  My First Foray Into Italian Civil Registration Records - Success!! (13 October 2016)

*  Searching the FREE MyHeritage "Compilation of Published Sources" Collection (1 December 2016)

*  Dear Randy: How Do You Search on FamilySearch for Records for a Person? (13 December 2016)

7)  2015 (Best Ancestral Finds):

 *  Plotting the Metes and Bounds of Simon Gates Home Farm in Gardner, Mass., Farm-Spotting: The Simon Gates Home Farm in Gardner, Massachusetts and More Farm-Spotting the Simon Gates Home Farm in Gardner, Massachusetts, and Finding the Simon Gates 1803 Home Farm Using Historic Map Works Overlays.

*  Amanuensis Monday - Post 258: 1912 Probate Record of James Richmond of Putnam, Connecticut - Part 1; Amanuensis Monday - Post 259: 1912 Probate Record of James Richmond of Putnam, Connecticut - Part 2 and Amanuensis Monday - Post 260: 1913 Probate Record of James Richmond of Putnam, Connecticut - Part 3

*  Amanuensis Monday - Post 261: 1875 Probate Record of Frederick Sovereen of Windham, Ontario

*  Yes, Grandchild, We are Related to Princess Charlotte!

*  Mea Culpa - The Ranslow Smith House in Jefferson County, New York

*  Finding Humphrey White's House in Glocester, R.I.

*  Jane and Rachel Morley in the Lancashire Quarterly Sessions Reports on Ancestry.com

*  James Vaux Articles in the British Newspaper Collection on FindMyPast

*  Down the Rabbit Hole - Finding the Estate Papers of John Underhill (1721-1793) of Chester, N.H.

*  Winner! Will of Jonathan Lewis (1715-1785) of Staten Island, New York

*  Winner!! Probate Records for Sever Torgerson Leland (1804-1889) of Dane County, Wisconsin

*  Big Winner!!! Will of Matthias Trimmer (1722-1793) of Roxbury, New Jersey

*  Winner: A Twofer in Ancestry's New Jersey Wills and Probate Collection, But!

*  Found: 1906 Death of Charles Woodward in Topeka, Kansas

*  Woo Hoo!!! Worcester County, Massachusetts Probate File Papers, 1731-1881, Now on AmericanAncestors.org

*  Enriching My RootsMagic Database - Miss Sadie Vaux

8)  2014:

 *  My Genealogy Research Adventures in 2013 (2 January 2014)

*  Trying Out Flipboard, a Curated Magazine Website/Mobile App (20 January 2014)

*  Finding Marriage Gems in Historical Newspapers - GenealogyBank Has a "Marriages" Sub-Category(24 January 2014)

*  Dear Randy: Why Do You Write the 52 Ancestors Friday Posts? (27 January 2014)

*  My Top Ten FREE USA Genealogy Resource Websites (30 January 2014)

*  "Randy at RootsTech 2014" Flipboard Magazine Available (11 February 2014)

*  Ideas for Ancestry.com Search Improvements - Show Me My Cousins (13 February 2014)

*  Ideas for Ancestry.com Improvements -- Improve the Ancestry Public Member Trees Match List to Put the "Richest Tree Person" First (14 February 2014)

*  Using Puzzilla and FamilySearch Family Tree to Identify Autosomal, Y and mtDNA Candidates (18 February 2014)

*  Who Contributed to My X-Chromosome? My List (28 February 2014)

*  Ancestry Drops "Old Search" - Hysteria Ensues (7 March 2014)

*  Should I Add My Own Family Stories to my Ancestry Member Tree? (27 March 2014)

*  A Day In the Genealogy Life of "The Geneaholic" (3 April 2014)

*  Musings On Genealogy "Expertise," "Elites" and Education (7 April 2014)

*  Step-by-Step Process for Accessing and Finding New York Probate Records on FamilySearch (16 April 2014)

*  Dear Randy: How Can I Avoid Updating My Tree in 5 Different Places? (19 May 2014)

*  "Advice to the Ancestry-Lorn" Thoughts After the "Stump the Chumps" Meeting (28 May 2014)

*  Dear Randy: How Do You Keep Your Workload Manageable and Everything Up-to-Date? (30 May 2014)

*  My Flipboard Magazine for "Randy at Jamboree 2014" (13 June 2014)

*  How Should Genealogy Societies Nurture Beginners? (24 July 2014)

*  A.J. Jacobs Cousin Connections - Um, Not Really (10 September 2014)

*  Which Family Tree Programs Sync With Online Trees and/Or Have Mobile Apps? (25 September 2014)

*  One Family Tree File or Many Tree Files? (14 October 2014)

*  Demonstrating Adding Ancestry.com Hints in a Specific Database to my RootsMagic Database (30 October 2014)

*  Dear Randy: How Have You Saved Your Research So Someone Can Search For It? (20 November 2014)

*  So Many Matches, So Little Time! How Do I Deal With Information Overload? (21 November 2014)

*  I Am Not Doing a Genealogy Do-Over (17 December 2014)

9)  2013:

*  "What Do You Do With a Document for a Potential Ancestor?" (posted 15 January 2013)

*  Dear Randy: What Record Collection Would You Like To Have Indexed? (posted 1 February 2013)

*  Top Ten Characteristics of a Good Genealogist (posted 26 February 2013)

*  Education, Collaboration, Crowd-sourcing and Cat-herding at CVGS Today (posted 13 March 2013)

*  Dear Randy - Why Does LDS Church Exert So Much Control over Genealogy? (posted 29 March 2013)

*  Breaking Down the Mary Smith Brickwall (or is she a Bell?) (posted 1 April 2013)

*  Dear Randy - Why Do You Post Your Own Genealogy Stuff? (posted 12 April 2013)

*  Is FamilySearch De-emphasizing Genealogical Research? (posted 18 April 2013)

*  Dear Randy - How Do You Handle False or Wrong Information?  (posted 30 May 2013)

*  Beginners, Professionals, Sources, Citations, EE, and More (posted 24 June 2013)

*  Have You Posted Your Genealogy Research on the Internet? I Practice PMGDOE! (posted 19 July 2013)

*  How Much Online Information Should I Use In My Family Tree? (posted 23 July 2013)

*  My Top Ten Most Useful Online Genealogy Databases to Research My Family Tree (posted 29 July 2013)

*  Standards, GEDCOM, FHISO, and my Genea-Fantasy (posted 1 August 2013)

*  Dear Randy - Where Did You Get All of Those Probate Records? (posted 14 August 2013)

*  It's Really Not That Easy! (posted 28 August 2013)

*  The Problem with FamilySearch Family Tree - For Example: Thomas Dudley (1576-1653) (posted 2 September 2013)

*  Gleaning Information From a Record or Article (posted 14 October 2013)

*  What Should Genealogical Societies Offer? My 11 Suggestions (posted 13 November 2013)

*  Dear Randy - How Do You Do Your Record Transcriptions? (posted 27 November 2013).

*  Dear Randy: "What Is Your Naming Convention for Downloaded Documents?" (posted 17 December 2013)

10)  2012:

 *  Do you Believe the FamilySearch Vision of the Future? (9 February 2012)

*  Answers to Questions from Ancestry.com (10 February 2012)

*  My Software Wish List - A Historical Place Name Jurisdiction Catalog (HPJNC) (14 February 2012)

*  Events, Assertions, Evidence, Facts, Sources, Analysis, Conclusions, Software, Oh My! (20 February 2012)

*  Are You an Evidence-Based or a Conclusion-Based Genealogist? (20 February 2012)

*  Puzzling Over the Evidence-Conclusion Process (1 March 2012) and Follow-Up Friday - Reader Comments on Evidence and Conclusions (2 March 2012)

*  Lesson Learned: Don't Trust Online Family Trees (24 April 2012)

*  Dear Randy - Can You Describe Your Genealogy Workflow? (25 April 2012)

*  How Accurate are the Ancestry "Shaky Leaf" Hints? (7 May 2012)

*  Legacy Cruise Vacation Compendium (23 May 2012)

*  Are We Strangers in Genealogy Land? (5 June 2012)

*  Which Site Provides "Best" Census Source Citations? (19 June 2012)

*  My So-Called "Career" in Genealogy - Genealogy Evangelist (11 July 2012)

*  TANSTAAFL - 2012 Update (12 July 2012)

*  How Do I Make Money in Genealogy? (13 July 2012)

*  The best laid plans of mice and men .. I love it! (23 July 2012)

*  The Value of a One-Name Study (7 August 2012)

*  A Genealogy Butterfly Type of Day (13 September 2012)

*  My Top 10 Genealogy Tools (5 October 2012)

*  My Ancestor Family File Folders and File Naming Convention (22 October 2012)

*  Crowd-Sourcing Cousin Edith (5 November 2012)

*  How Can We Communicate "The Right Way?" (26 November 2012)

*  We All Want Seamless Genealogy Data Transfers (7 December 2012)

*  How Can I Obtain Massachusetts Probate Records? (17 December 2012)

11)  2011:

*  The iGene Awards for 2011 for Genea-Musings Posts


12)  2010:

 PERSONAL RESEARCH

*  Who is Mr. Seaver - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (January 2010)

*  Chronicling Rosalie and Jeremiah - Part 1, Part 2 (January 2010)

*  Who Were the Parents of Susannah Page (ca1611-1693)? (April 2010)

*  Finding Nathaniel Wade's Wife's Name Online - Post 1, Post 2, Post 3 (June 2010)

*  Hiram Abiathur Knapp (1841-1927) (13 August 2010)

*  Was Charlotte on the Orphan Train? (1 September 2010)

*  The Whittle Research Compendium (23 posts) (September-November 2010)

*  Full Day Research at the FHL (22 October 2010)

* Using the FAN Club Principle - Thomas J. Newton, Father of Sophia Newton (1834-1923) - Post 1;Post 2: Which Repositories? (November 2010)

*  Were the Morgan Girls Related to Lyle Carringer? (December 2010)

BOOK REVIEWS

*  Who Do You Think You Are? by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak (4 March 2010)

*  Wanted! U.S. Criminal Records  by Ron Arons (8 June 2010)

*  The Journey Takers by Leslie Albrecht Huber (29 June 2010)

*  Shaking the Family Tree by Buzzy Jackson (7 September 2010)

*  Review: Quicksheet. Genealogical Problem Analysis: A Strategic Plan (20 October 2010)

*  If This Land Could Talk by Judy R. Cook (16 November 2010)

*  Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Military Districts by Paul Graham (6 December 2010)

COMMENTARY

*  Teachable Moments in "Doing a Reasonably Exhaustive Search" (4 January 2010)

*  A Conversation with David E. Rencher - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (April 2010)

*  The Future of Genealogy Collaboration? (30 April 2010)

*  Finding Ancestry.com Databases Without Name Indexes (7 May 2010)

*  The Online Family Tree Conundrum (10 May 2010)

*  \Ancestry.com Source citations leave a lot to be desired (14 May 2010)

*  Dear Randy: Where do I find "the good stuff?" (28 May 2010)

*  Is Robert Pattinson a Cousin to Vlad III Dracula? (24 June 2010)

*  The Ancestral Golden Arches of Genealogy? (30 July 2010)

*  Ancestry.com Acquisition of iArchives (including Footnote.com) (23 September 2010)

*  Intentional Acts of Genealogical Terrorism (8 October 2010)

*  FamilySearch Blogger Day - FamilySearch Family Tree; Upcoming Collections; The Current and Next FamilySearch Site; FamilySearch Indexing;  Software Community (October 2010)

13)  2009:

 *  The 2009 iGene Awards for Genea-Musings

14)  2008:

*  The Genea-Musings iGene Awards for 2008

Updated 15 May 2022

1 comment:

Unknown said...

There is nothing like a Barnes family murder. The historic 1820 Wilkes County, North Carolina murder mystery involving conspiracy and 30 years of family conflict is now available on the net. The murderer of Jehu Barnes was set free. The story never before told is reviewed at https://competitivestrategies.us/jehu-barnes-his-death/

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