In GenTales today, I offer a few shout-outs to helpful advice on collecting family history. If you get together with family this year, regardless of how you record the information – video, audio, or transcription – the information can be helpful in filling in gaps in vital records.
Read Holidays and family on Substack
New in the GenTales Substack newsletter is a snapshot of the family of Jacob Lincoln of Windham, Connecticut, as told in the vital records.
Read the lineage here.
New in GenTales on Medium – From Rags to Riches and Back Again
While writing the lineage books on my family, I noticed an interesting trend…
Until Nov. 28, the genealogy PDFs on Ko-Fi are reduced 25% – use code GEN25
An Irish immigrant lineage – the children of Henry O’Neill and Nancy Lee. An excerpt from My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 1
New in GenTales on Substack is a listing of the 20 children of two Prather sisters who married two cousins – one Sprigg and one Yates.
This lineage is in Cousins of Nunney Castle: Four Hundred Years of Praters from England to Indiana
New in the GenTales newsletter on Substack – Military Records and Resources in the U.S.
Includes links to the National Archives and information on what is available and to whom, as well as FOIA request links.
Throughout October, get the ebook Immortal Legacy by AP Neal free on Smashwords. Use coupon code GSVV4.
New in GenTales on Medium – The Livery and Merchants’ Guilds of London: My ancestors’ roles in trade and colonization. With mention of ancestors from My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 2.
