The Family Jewels newsletter will teach you great tips to improve your genealogical research. We will also mix in some African American history because we all need to know our history.
Welcome to Family History Month!!!
I am so EXCITED for Family History Month! I had a friend on Facebook ask a question about researching her family. She wanted to know if she did not know the full names and birthdays of her older relatives, could she still have success researching her family roots....
October 2022 Newsletter
Thank you for subscribing to our monthly newsletter! We hope that you enjoy this month's information. If you want us to address a specific topic, send us a message at tanya@familymattersgenealogy.com and we will discuss it in the November 2022 newsletter. Researching...
What to Do with Family Photos After Death
Family Photos Have Life After Death Last week's blog post talked about digital photos vs. printed photos but for our final week of Save Your Photos Month, we will plan for the inevitable, death. Parents buy life insurance to pay for their funerals or to make life...
The Digital Divide
Photos of the Future Last week's blog discussed decluttering photos on our phones. This rolls into this week's blog of digital photos. The current generation is technology savvy and believe and love anything digital. So where does that leave us old school printed...
Organizing Pictures
For last week's blog, I organized all my photo boxes which was great! This week, I've moved on to organize the pictures on my phone! Smartphones make taking pictures easier than ever. Before them, I had to make a conscience decision to lug my bulky 35mm camera with me...
A Photo is Worth 1000 Words
Importance of Photos Photos are important to genealogists and family historians. We work long hours organizing, researching, and archiving family stories, documents and pictures for future generations to enjoy. We keep the printed and digital photos for our future...
The Green Book – Trip Advisor for Black Folks
1962 The Negro Motorists' Green Book June 2022 Newsletter Revisited I featured information about The Negro Motorist Green Book or the Green Book in my June 2022 newsletter. Many people don't know that the Green Book was more than a 2018 movie with the same title. The...
Names are important, especially in Genealogy
"It Ain't What They Call You, It's What You Answer To." - W.C. Fields Common Surnames in the United States in 1990 W.C. Fields understood the complexity of names. My April newsletter touched on the importance of names. Your name links you to your ancestors. My...
Randomness is My Specialty – Last Part
Onslow County History This is the last installment in my series of randomness and researching local history. From the last post, we discovered an African American farmer named John Grice buried in the Caucasian Huggins Family Cemetery. I tried to dive in to find his...
Randomness is My Specialty (Part 3)
death date 10 Sep 1879 We continue the genealogical research from the last time with two broken headstones left (https://familymattersgenealogy.com/?p=352). This was going to be a challenge. The third headstone, the broken headstone, only had the death date showing....
Tanya Teat Foreman, Genealogist
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