When doing your genealogy research do you sometimes feel like you are going down a rabbit hole or chasing your tail? That's what I sometimes feel like when I research descendants of a Crawford who is not my ancestor. So yesterday, I was chasing my tail by researching the children of Edward Crawford (1762-1826) of …
Month: February 2020
Crawford yDNA
Did you know you can get a yDNA haplogroup from your Ancestry DNA? Until an administrator of the Crawford yDNA project posted directions on the Clan Crawford Association Ancestry and DNA Research Forum Facebook group, I didn't know anything about this. To do this, one needs to download Ancestry DNA and save the ZIP file in a known location. The file …
Always Learning – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Do you like to pick up tips and tricks from other researchers? I know I do! I especially like those surveys or challenges that cause me to look at my data in a different way. That's one of the things I like about Randy Seaver's "Saturday Night Genealogy Fun" challenges. Not only does Randy challenge …
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Garrard County Names
Do you use a list of FAN (Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors) club names when researching county records for your family? If so, do you ever struggle with remembering how the members of your FAN club fit together? If so, you are not alone. As I'm getting back into my CRAWFORD research and Garrard County, Kentucky records …