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Tag: Technology
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Barcodes and Shopkeeper Ancestors: What a Pack of Gum Can Teach Us About Family History
Barcodes and Shopkeeper Ancestors: What a Pack of Gum Can Teach Us About Family History At 8:01 in the morning on June 26, 1974, a cashier named Sharon Buchanan rang up a ten-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. It was the first time in the world a UPC…
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The Day the Future Called: How Martin Cooper’s 1973 Cell Phone Debut Can Spark Your Family’s Oral History
The Day the Future Called: How Martin Cooper’s 1973 Cell Phone Debut Can Spark Your Family’s Oral History The Day the Future Called: April 3, 1973, New York City. The sidewalk bustled with the usual midtown energy—yellow cabs honking, briefcases swinging, the hum of a city always on the move. But on that spring afternoon,…
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Ride Into the Tech Zone: Your Genealogy Toolbox Is Missing These 6 Secret Weapons
Ride Into the Tech Zone: Your Genealogy Toolbox Is Missing These 6 Secret Weapons Ride Into the Tech Zone: Let me tell you about a problem I see all the time. Genealogists spend hours squinting at faded documents, losing citations when websites vanish, and getting generic fluff from AI tools. Meanwhile, solutions exist that most…
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How to Create Permalinks for Genealogical Source Citations
How to Create Permalinks for Genealogical Source Citations How to Create Permalinks: As genealogists, we spend countless hours scouring the internet for that one elusive record that proves a family connection. We find a digital image of a birth certificate on a state archive website, a detailed obituary in a digitized 19th-century newspaper, or a…
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Family Tree Maker Support Site SCAM ALERT! They Want Your Money (And Your Data)
Family Tree Maker Support Site SCAM ALERT! They Want Your Money (And Your Data) Family Tree Maker Support Site: Picture this: It’s Saturday morning. You’ve got your coffee, your census records are lined up, and you’re ready to break down a brick wall in Family Tree Maker 2019. But then—a glitch. The software freezes. You…
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National Technology Day: From Microfilm to Megabytes
National Technology Day: From Microfilm to Megabytes National Technology Day: Happy New Year, everyone! As we settle into the first week of January, many of us are focused on resolutions or perhaps finally organizing those boxes of family photos we inherited over the holidays. However, there is a special occasion on the calendar that deserves…
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The Golden Rules of Genealogy Haven’t Changed. The Tools Around Them Have
The golden rules of genealogy: what still holds true, plus how to use AI in your family history research without inventing ancestors.
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Just in Time for Summer Reading: Amazon Kindle Rewards 2x Points This Week! July 7–8, 2026
Just in Time for Summer Reading: Earn 2x Kindle Points July 7–8, 2026 only. Stock your Kindle for summer with genealogy reads and more before this two-day window closes.
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National Fried Chicken Day: Preserving Your Family’s Food Heritage
National Fried Chicken Day is the perfect excuse to treat Grandma’s recipe card like the genealogy document it always was.