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Spotlight on a Texas Schoolteacher – Martha Ersyl Battle
Southwestern University, Hiking Club, 1920
Focus on the Archives: Digital Public Library of America
This weekly series provides a view into various archives and their importance for genealogical research. This week's selection is the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). This digital endeavor started in April 2013 to act as an open, distributed national digital...
Heraldry, Clans, Coats of Arms and More!
Heraldry, "the practice of devising, blazoning, and granting armorial insignia and of tracing and recording genealogies"[1], is an exciting practice. Many people who have an ancestral heritage aligned to a clan community may be aware of their clan's crest or coat of...
How to use the FamilySearch Catalog for Online Research
A necessary tool for all genealogists, the FamilySearch Catalog describes over two million microfilm records and hundreds of thousands of books and maps. While it only contains descriptions of the records rather than the actual ones, it still proves to be an important...
Beginning Your Genealogy Research: Learn Through Examples
One of the best ways to learn genealogy research (second to practicing yourself) is through the accuracies, errors, and methods of other genealogists. Examples of genealogical research can be as simple as the finding and analysis of a certain record, to the research...
Beginning Your Genealogy Research: The Research Plan
So, you’ve successfully completed the first step in beginning your genealogy research and conducted an interview with one of your relatives, but how do you use the information you’ve gathered from the interview to begin your research? This next step is where...
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Image 1: Images. Photograph. Pulteney Bridge. 17 November 2019. Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. Phyllis Zumwalt, photographer. Private collection. For more information: https://bath.co.uk/attractions/pulteney-bridge.