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Your Genealogical Family Tree Versus Your Genetic Family Tree: Inheritance Patterns and Why They Matter

July 24, 2024 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 6 Comments

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As you delve deeper into your family history research, you'll soon discover there are endless ways to arrange your family tree. Learn more about the difference between a genealogical and a genetic family tree from one of our genetic genealogists. “You have your mother’s eyes!”  “You look just like your grandfather.”   “You have your great-grandmother’s singing voice!”  Many of us grew up hearing sayings such as these, about how our physical traits, talents, or personality quirks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DNA Research, Genealogy Education Tagged With: family tree

7 Ways to Share Family History with Your Grandchildren

October 6, 2023 by Legacy Tree Genealogists Leave a Comment

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What are the stories you remember about your grandparents that make you smile, laugh, or even cry? Is it the poem your grandmother wrote in grade school about trees, or maybe her tap-dancing practice that kept her parents up at night?  Perhaps it’s the stories of the hard times your grandparents went through, like losing daughters to unexpected illness or the loss of precious generational ranch land after the death of a husband. To keep these stories of joy, sadness, and strength alive, they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy for Enjoyment Tagged With: family history, family tree, grandchildren, Intergenerational

Creating Your Scottish Family Tree: What You Need To Know

June 9, 2023 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 7 Comments

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Legacy Tree works with onsite professional genealogist around the world. We sat down with one of our Scottish onsite researchers to ask her a few questions about Scottish heritage and genealogy, and how to get through common challenges and assumptions about Scottish family trees.  Discovering Surprising Scottish Heritage LT:  We are pleased to chat today with one of our onsite researchers, Emily.  I think it's really interesting for people to understand how you got into genealogy. What … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Education, Genealogy Records and Resources, genealogy research, Genealogy Tips & Best Practices, Onsite, United Kingdom Tagged With: family tree, onsite, Scotland, Scottish

Connecting Generations Through Family History

July 22, 2021 by Sheri Legacy Tree Genealogists Researcher 1 Comment

Connecting Generations Through Family History

Legacy Tree Genealogists' Sheri Bennett provides some personal insight into how the love for genealogy can spread from one generation to the next. What starts as an interest shared by family can become an incurable obsession that spreads from one generation to the next. Genealogy begins as an interest, becomes a hobby, sometimes continues as a vocation, takes over as an obsession, and finally becomes an incurable disease. I have seen this in my own life and now in the lives of my children and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy for Enjoyment, Writing a Family History Tagged With: family history stories, family tree, personal

Top 3 Resources to Trace Your Ancestry in Guatemala

February 19, 2021 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 6 Comments

Legacy Tree Genealogists works with researchers from across the globe to access records for our clients. We asked one of our onsite researchers located in Guatemala to share an overview of the top 3 resources for tracing your Guatemalan ancestry. A journey through Guatemala history is essential to understand the nature of Guatemala genealogy records. Guatemala, like the rest of the Central America countries, was colonized by the Spaniards, who arrived in 1524 and conquered the native … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Onsite, Onsite Tagged With: ancestry, archives, family history, family tree, genealogy, Guatemala, Guatemalan, Legacy Tree Onsite, records

The Genealogy Research Process: 5 Steps to Maximize Your Research

June 19, 2020 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 3 Comments

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We outline the 5 steps in the genealogy research process that will help you maximize your research efforts. When researching your family history, have you ever asked yourself: “Where do I even start?!” Or, in the thick of researching have you ever thought: “What do I do next?” or “How do I know what I’ve found is correct?” These are questions we’ve all asked ourselves in one form or another at some point. Genealogy can be overwhelming and sometimes that feeling of being overwhelmed turns … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Records and Resources, Methodology Tagged With: evidence analysis, family history, family tree, genealogists, genealogy, genealogy records, genealogy report, genealogy research, genealogy research process, genealogy resources, research conclusions, research plan

Putting the “Story” Back in Family History

September 20, 2019 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 7 Comments

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Whether you want to build your family history with as many names and dates as possible, or choose to instead focus on discovering the stories and details of your ancestors' lives, there's no right or wrong goal. It's about choosing what's important to you. Choosing How to Build Your Family History As project managers, one of the questions we ask our clients is whether they want us to build their family trees as quickly as we can, only including biographical material if it is of unusual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Tips & Best Practices, Writing a Family History Tagged With: family history, family history stories, family tree, genealogy research, professional genealogist

Untangling a Varied Pedigree

February 28, 2014 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 2 Comments

On a recent client project, we untangled a varied pedigree consisting of Chinese, Japanese, and Southern American heritage. Here's how we dissected a complicated family history! As a Project Manager with Legacy Tree Genealogists, one of the best parts of my job is seeing the amazing things we are able to do for our clients. Clients come to us with questions, genealogy tangles, and often with a pile of old documents they don’t even know what to do with. We take these muddled ingredients and turn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asian Genealogy, Methodology, United States Tagged With: Chinese, family history, family tree, genealogy, heritage, history, Japanese, pedigree, Southern, US, USA

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