1) 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 - Newbies Need to Be Warned! (31 March 2019)
* Sorting Out My Thomas J. Newtons (1 April 2019)
* Dear Grandpa: Are We Related To Any Famous Authors? (24 April 2019)
* Dear Randy: How Do You Explain This 1940 U.S. Census Entry? (1 May 2019)
* My FOREVER Home Movie Digitization Experience - Wonderful! (2 May 2019)
* Where Are the Morris County, New Jersey Probate Records in the Family History Library Catalog - UPDATED (8 May 2019)
* Working With the "Exploring Family Trees" Visualization Program (27 May 2019)
* Thinking Critically About My Elizabeth Duck "Potential Ancestor" AncestryDNA ThruLine (24 July 2019)
* Dear Randy - How Do You Use the Ancestry Record Hints? (7 August 2019)
* Are You Related to a U.S. President? HistoryLink and Geni Can Tell You! (15 August 2019)
* "The Pending Reinvention of Ancestry.com" Article on Counting Chromosomes (21 August 2019)
* Dear Randy: Where Can I Find a Full-Featured, Free, Updatable Online Family Tree? (28 August 2019)
* Dear Randy: Do You Ignore Ancestry Hints? (18 September 2019)
* Can DNA Determine Who My 3rd Great-Grandfather Is? (25 September 2019)
* Dear Randy: Why Does FamilySearch Remove Records and Collections? (16 October 2019)
* Using the "Mining Ancestry.com Hints From a Specific Collection" Tool (21 October 2019)
* Dear Randy: How Do I Match My RootsMagic Person to a FamilySearch Family Tree Profile? (30 October 2019)
* Finding More of My Grandsons' Italian Ancestral Records - Updated! (2 December 2019)
* Dear Randy: How Did You Find the Birth Record for the Italian Ancestor? (4 December 2019)
* 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)
* Finding Devier J. Lamphear Smith's Parents - Part I: DNA Trails (29 May 2018)
* Using the RootsMagic "Duplicate Search Merge" Tool (6 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)
* Pruning and Grafting the FamilySearch Family Tree (3 January 2017)
* Dear Randy: Tell Me More About Your One-Name Studies (30 January 2017)
* Finding Family Tree "Problems" in RootsMagic 7 (31 January 2017)
* A Maiden Name for Ethel G. (--?--) Carringer (1880-1919) (20 February 2017)
* Dear Randy: How Do You Update All Your Online Trees? (22 February 2017)
* RootsTech 2017 Blog Compendium – UPDATED (1 March 2017)
* Is There Really an Ancestry.com "Big Tree?" (9 March 2017)
* Extreme Genes Episode 184 Features Dave, Paul, Randy and Tom (27 March 2017)
* Dear Randy: Can I Make a Kinship Report in RootsMagic? (4 April 2017)
* Which Record Provider Provides the Most Record Hints? (5 April 2017)
* Dear Randy: How Do You Handle Female Names? (21 April 2017)
* Comparison of My Autosomal DNA Ethnicity Estimates (31 May 2017)
* Dear Randy: Can You Answer These Ancestry.com Hint Questions? (19 June 2017)
* Dear Randy: How Best to Save Your Genealogy Work? (7 July 2017)
* My Best Practices for RootsMagic TreeShare and Ancestry WebHints (11 July 2017)
* Ancestry.com Quirk: The Vanishing Search Result (26 July 2017)
* MyHeritage Answer to Amberly's Question (“Is My MyHeritage Personal Information Private?”) Yesterday (8 August 2017)
* Where in the World is "Elsabeth" Brook? Crowdsourcing Works! (10 August 2017)
* Baiting the Genealogy Hook (23 August 2017)
* Why Does the Ancestry API For Web Hints Add Bogus Facts? (28 August 2017)
* Dear Randy: How and Why Do You Use the FamilySearch Family Tree? (31 August 2017)
* Too Many Samuel Marshmans in Wiltshire (13 September 2017)
* Updating My AncestryDNA Status and Statistics (18 September 2017)
* Dear Randy: What Is Your Genealogy Work Flow Using RootsMagic TreeShare? (25 September 2017)
* Dear Randy: Who Are the People in Your Genealogy Database? (9 October 2017)
* Ordering a PDF of English/Welsh Historical Birth and Death Records From the GRO (13 October 2017)
* Thomas Richman's 1848 Birth Record is Here From GRO PDF Service – Updated (19 October 2017)
* RootsMagic TreeShare, Ancestry Member Trees, and Source Citations (31 October 2017)
* Creating "We Remember" Memorials on Ancestry.com - FREE, Easy? (15 November 2017)
* Finding the 1868 Richmond-White Marriage Record on FHL Digital Microfilm (22 November 2017)
* Dear Randy - How Can I Combine Two Ancestry Trees Into One Ancestry Tree? (27 November 2017)
* Dear Randy - How Did You Find That 1840 Lancashire Marriage Record? (7 December 2017)
* "I Understand You Do Genealogy Research" (13 December 2017)
* Ancestry Member Trees, Indexing Rules, Cousin Bait, Source Citations and Me (18 December 2017)
* Dear Randy: How Do You Use Your Smartphone to Do Genealogy? (11 January 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
5) 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
* 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
6) 2014:
* My Genealogy Research Adventures in 2013 (2 January 2014)
* Ideas for Ancestry.com Search Improvements - Show Me My Cousins (13 February 2014)
* Using Puzzilla and FamilySearch Family Tree to Identify Autosomal, Y and mtDNA Candidates (18 February 2014)
7) 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)
* How Much Online Information Should I Use In My Family Tree? (posted 23 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)
* Gleaning Information From a Record or Article (posted 14 October 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)
8) 2012:
* Do you Believe the FamilySearch Vision of the Future? (9 February 2012)
* My Software Wish List - A Historical Place Name Jurisdiction Catalog (HPJNC) (14 February 2012)
* Puzzling Over the Evidence-Conclusion Process (1 March 2012) and Follow-Up Friday - Reader Comments on Evidence and Conclusions (2 March 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)
* TANSTAAFL - 2012 Update (12 July 2012)
* How Do I Make Money in Genealogy? (13 July 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)
9) 2011:
* The iGene Awards for 2011 for Genea-Musings Posts
10) 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)
11) 2009:
* The 2009 iGene Awards for Genea-Musings
12) 2008:
* The Genea-Musings iGene Awards for 2008
Updated 29 December 2019
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