Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
By: Digital Man to Kaelon on Wed May 04 2022 11:18 am
> My grandmother, in my case, collected all the data and stories into a word
> processor (Galaxy) and FTM. We helped her to print the entire tree on a dot
> matrix printer and then taped the pages together. Fun project, but not sure
> how much of that effort remains in a useable form. Now with 23andme and
> Ancestry, they can automate much of that work (through bloodlines, at
> least).
Yes. I am definitely a big fan of those services and enjoy using them to trace m
y European lineage.
One of the reasons why we interviewed all of our elderly relatives, including gr
eat grandmother and great aunts and uncles on all lines, is that all of my famil
y lines lead back to Spain by way of Cuba. Unfortunately, Ancestry.com and 23and
Me largely rely upon North American census and service records, whereas much of
the Caribbean and Mediterranean world relies upon handwritten -- and un-indexed!
-- Church records, namely, baptisms, marriage certificates, and the like.
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