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National Proofreading Day: Your Family Tree Is Lying to You (And You Probably Helped)
National Proofreading Day: Your Family Tree Is Lying to You (And You Probably Helped) National Proofreading Day: Every March 8th, the world observes National Proofreading Day. Most people shrug, maybe glance at a work email, and move on with their lives. Genealogists, however, should be treating this day like a minor religious holiday—complete with ritual…
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National Grammar Day: Because “Died Intestate” Is Not a Cause of Death (And Other Genealogy Writing Sins)
National Grammar Day: Because “Died Intestate” Is Not a Cause of Death (And Other Genealogy Writing Sins) National Grammar Day: Let me paint you a picture. You’re scrolling through a family history someone uploaded to their public Ancestry tree. You’re hoping for rich narrative detail about Great-Great-Grandma Olga’s harrowing immigration from Prussia. What you get…
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Disclosing AI Assistance in Genealogy Writing: A How-To Guide
Disclosing AI Assistance in Genealogy Writing: A How-To Guide Disclosing AI Assistance in Genealogy Writing: Artificial intelligence tools have become increasingly accessible to genealogists over the past eighteen months. Large language models can draft correspondence, summarize research findings, and suggest narrative structures. Image recognition tools can extract text from documents. Translation algorithms can render foreign-language…
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Celebrate National Punctuation Day: Give Your Ancestors the Gift of a Well Punctuated Story
Celebrate National Punctuation Day: Give Your Ancestors the Gift of a Well Punctuated Story Celebrate National Punctuation Day which is celebrated every year on September 24. Sounds a bit nerdy? Maybe. But genealogists and family historians know that a single comma or semicolon can change the meaning of a sentence (just ask the heirs who fought…
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FamilyTreeDNA Summer Sale 2026 Is the Deadline You Actually Need
FamilyTreeDNA Summer Sale 2026 runs through August 31, 2026. Save on Y-DNA, mtDNA, and Family Finder bundles before holiday gatherings arrive.
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Woodstock Music Festival: Interviewing Boomer Relatives: Questions That Actually Work
Woodstock Music Festival: Interviewing Boomer Relatives: Questions That Actually Work I grew up in Liberty, New York, about ten miles from Bethel. In August 1969, I was six years old. Somewhere out there, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, half a million people were listening to Jimi Hendrix and sleeping in the mud, and I was…
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Kindle Rewards Points August 13: 50 Years of Left-Handers Day Meets Kindle Rewards!
Kindle Rewards Points August 13: One day only earn 2x Kindle Rewards Points. Celebrate 50 years of Left-Handers Day and build your genealogy library while it lasts.