Are you struggling to come up with meaningful holiday gifts for your loved ones? Consider the gift of heritage! For many of us, the holidays mean family time. We gather together to celebrate lasting traditions and create new ones, drawing closer to the ones we love and strengthening ties with them. Coming up with meaningful gift ideas for our loved ones, however, is a common struggle. What does she like? What would make him happy? Family history projects make unique, personal, and … [Read more...]
Contacting Your Birth Parent or Siblings
At Legacy Tree Genealogists, we are often contacted by individuals seeking assistance in finding information regarding biological family members. Utilizing advancements in genetic genealogy and thorough genealogical research, we have helped many clients find closure. However, for many, the journey does not end at identifying their birth mother, birth father or siblings. We consulted with industry experts Richard Weiss of DNAAdoption.org and Curry Wolfe, for insight and guidance into the next … [Read more...]
13 Secrets to Getting Replies from DNA Cousin Matches
Tips from one of our professional genealogists for getting responses from your DNA cousin matches. It happens to all of us. You see you have new DNA cousin matches, and you get excited. Maybe they have a brick-wall surname you recognize, or maybe they’re a really close match, or maybe they’re in an area where you think your ancestors may have lived. You do a genealogy happy dance, and you send them a message. And then you wait. And wait. And wait. And nothing happens. It’s frustrating, … [Read more...]
Legacy Tree Genealogists Recognized as One of Utah’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies…Again
Once again, Legacy Tree Genealogists has been named to the Utah100, MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN)’s annual list of 100 fastest-growing companies, this time moving up to rank as 46th on the list. The company was recognized at the 24th annual Utah 100 Awards program, held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. Recipients of the Utah 100 were chosen by the percentage of revenue increase of each company between 2013 and 2017. “We are excited to receive this recognition once again,” … [Read more...]
6 Things You Need to Know About the AncestryDNA Ethnicity Update
If you haven’t checked your AncestryDNA results recently, you’re in for a treat. The recent AncestryDNA update includes some big changes to its ethnicity estimates, and there’s something for everyone to explore. Here are six things you need to know to get the most out of this new tool for learning more about your ancestors. 1. Everyone has access to the updated reports. Like most new Ancestry features, this one was gradually rolled out to Ancestry users. That left some of us to watch and wait … [Read more...]
Time + Place= Records and Family!
If there’s any problem that’s bigger than not finding anything about your ancestors, it’s finding too many records with people of the same name to make sense of it all. That’s when genealogists use the concepts of time and place in genealogy like a set of cross-hairs to hone in on records that relate to their family. Time and Place in Genealogy Research What does "time and place" mean to the family historian? It means putting yourself in the time and place of the ancestor for whom you are … [Read more...]
Finding Amelia Winter: Using Newspaper Social Columns to Find Female Ancestors
Searching for a female ancestor? Check the newspaper social columns! Tracing our female ancestors and learning about their lives can be a difficult proposition in American family history research, so it is important to leave no stone unturned and utilize all the tools available to the genealogist in that endeavor. One such crucial tool in the 19th and 20th centuries is the local newspaper, and the social columns in particular. Newspaper Social Columns: 19th Century Social Media In the years … [Read more...]
Legacy Tree Onsite: Genealogy Research in Vienna, Former Center of an Empire
Legacy Tree works with researchers all over the world to access records for our clients. We asked one of our onsite researchers, located in Vienna, Austria, to share his experiences with genealogy research in Vienna archives and offices. Until 1919, Vienna was the capital of one of the largest empires in Europe, and many people passed through Vienna, or produced records that are now held in archives in Vienna. With close to two million inhabitants, Vienna is a population center likely to be … [Read more...]