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53 Irish Genealogy Videos from Six Years of RootsTech (2025 Update)

James Colgan March 17, 2025 0 Comments

I’ve curated all 53 Irish genealogy seminar videos from the past six years of the annual RootsTech conference on genealogy and technology, hosted by FamilySearch. Irish genealogy is always a…

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38 Irish Genealogy Videos from Five Years of RootsTech (2024 Update)

James Colgan March 2, 2024 0 Comments

I’ve curated all 38 Irish genealogy seminar videos from the past five years of the annual RootsTech conference on genealogy and technology, hosted by FamilySearch. Irish genealogy is always a…

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My Recent Experiences Ordering Civil War Records

James Colgan October 16, 2023 0 Comments

I’m not lucky enough to be among the people whose family’s Civil War records were digitized by the National Archives. So I decided to order Civil War records from the…

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How I had My Uncle’s Arlington Headstone Replaced

James Colgan June 14, 2023 0 Comments

Following damning reports of embarrassing mistakes and mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery – from major burial mistakes and substandard grave digging to errors with marking graves – a scandal that…

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30 Irish Genealogy Video Seminars from RootsTech

James Colgan March 3, 2023 3 Comments

A curated collection of shortcuts to 30 Irish-specific genealogy seminar videos from RootsTech by FamilySearch, from their 2019-2023 conferences.

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Reverse Searches and Browsing in U.S. City Directories on Ancestry.com

James Colgan February 24, 2023 0 Comments

A lot of people never find out that it is possible to search city and county directories on Ancestry.com (and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fold3) in very helpful ways other than…

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Ideas for FindAGrave Memorial Content and Tutorial on Adding Links and Text Formatting

James Colgan February 2, 2023 0 Comments

FindAGrave is one of the greatest free resources available online for genealogy research. Many people do not know: I’m going to show you how to do those 2 things, as…

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53 Irish Genealogy Videos from Six Years of RootsTech (2025 Update)
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