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Cider and Apple Jack: An American tradition
It's autumn, the traditional time for harvesting apples here in New England. Making cider at home is a very old American tradition, as shown in the 1868 painting above ("New...
Cider and Apple Jack: An American tradition
It's autumn, the traditional time for harvesting apples here in New England. Making cider at home is a very old American tradition, as shown in the 1868 painting above ("New...

Why we made the EasyGenie 1870 federal census t...
The 1870 U.S. federal census is a gateway document for family research. For years, it was one of the few census documents freely available online. It was the first to...
Why we made the EasyGenie 1870 federal census t...
The 1870 U.S. federal census is a gateway document for family research. For years, it was one of the few census documents freely available online. It was the first to...

Using the GRO database with an American credit ...
Do you have ancestors or family connections from England or Wales from the mid-1800s? If so, there’s an inexpensive resource that may help with your research or even break through...
Using the GRO database with an American credit ...
Do you have ancestors or family connections from England or Wales from the mid-1800s? If so, there’s an inexpensive resource that may help with your research or even break through...

A family history website that will last 100 yea...
Here at EasyGenie, we’re focused on helping other genealogists preserve and share genealogy for future generations using paper genealogy charts and printable genealogy PDFs. Last week, blogging platform WordPress announced...
A family history website that will last 100 yea...
Here at EasyGenie, we’re focused on helping other genealogists preserve and share genealogy for future generations using paper genealogy charts and printable genealogy PDFs. Last week, blogging platform WordPress announced...

Ancestry's indexing experiment with firms in China
I follow genealogist Michele Lewis on TikTok. She recently found an unusual Ancestry.com transcription from the 1820 Federal Census. Check out the handwritten first name. What does it look like...
Ancestry's indexing experiment with firms in China
I follow genealogist Michele Lewis on TikTok. She recently found an unusual Ancestry.com transcription from the 1820 Federal Census. Check out the handwritten first name. What does it look like...

History Mystery #7 from an 1835 stone farmhouse...
Nearly three dozen of you tried to guess the object for last week’s history mystery, as well as the text that was partially obscured by rust. You can see a...
History Mystery #7 from an 1835 stone farmhouse...
Nearly three dozen of you tried to guess the object for last week’s history mystery, as well as the text that was partially obscured by rust. You can see a...