My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1)  What are the Top 10 genealogy-related books that helped you the most? Here's mine: Wow, this one will be hard to do.  In my Library Thing book list, I have ninety-six books tagged as “Genealogy.” The ten that helped me the best? Here is my list in reverse alphabetical order (it was how I looked through my Library Thing list): The Source : A Guidebook of American Genealogy, edited by A. Eakle. This was one of the first books I read and did so cover to cover. I think I had been researching my family for about a year when I was given this book. Many parts were over my head but it gave me a sense of the resources I should be seeking in my research and instructions on how to use them. Your Swedish Roots: A Step by Step Handbook by Per Clemensson. When I first started researching my husband’s Swedish ancestors, ...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to answer these questions: Which genealogy software have you used over your genealogy career to document your genealogy and family history research?  What did you start with (Then) and what do you presently use (Now)?  Please share your experiences. Here's mine: I began documenting my genealogy on paper sheets: family group sheets and pedigree charts. Once I got a personal computer, I discovered Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and used that for many years, first as a DOS program and later as a Windows program. This was a program provided by the Genealogy Society of Utah (Mormons). The Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group ( https://www.svcgg.org/ ) came up with standards or procedures for using PAF to its fullest and I followed the methods for documenting my work in the notes area using their proc...