Monthly Archive: February 2022

But I don’t know

I hear this phrase so often that I decided to see if RootsTech was intererested in a class on it. Aside from a staff training and one recorded meeting, I haven’t officially taught anything!...

World boundary changes

Check out Gapminder’s full video on all the boundary changes overtime. It is insane! The documents of the history and abbreviations used in the timelapse video can be found here and in the information...

Unique family trees

Just as every chick and tree are different, so are each of our family trees. And for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes the unsolvable, really isn’t solvable and sometimes it takes more time,...

Contrary proof: Jacobsons

Oral history from Anders Anton Jacobson himself indicates he arrived in America through Toronto, Canada. But ship records I found show Anders, and his wife Matilda and daughter Jenny depart in 1866 and have...

Long lost Montana family

John Talmage has been lost to his family since 1894. My husband really wanted to try to find him. We are definitely not the first to try, but I was excited that he was...