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 Parson's Genealogy Online
- Whatever your level of interest or expertise in genealogy research, here's where you'll find the tools you need to be successful in your quest to preserve your family's heritage.
Today, Parsons' top-selling software includes QuickVerse®, Family Origins®, Atomic Clock™, Medical Drug Reference®, Screen Shot
Deluxe™, PC Copy Center™, Interest Vision®, Personal Home Inventory™, Software Remover Plus™, Year 2000 Detect & Correct™ and Web Info Finder.
- Family Origins® 7.0 Deluxe , $49.95
- Showing off your relatives is easy with the Photo Pedigree Chart and many other presentation-quality charts. The Deluxe version includes Family Reunion Planner, and Place Finder.
- Family Atlas™ for Windows, $19.95
- Map Your Family's History with Family Atlas™ for Windows! Use genealogy software -- such as Parsons' Family Origins for Windows – to create GEDCOM files and then import the GEDCOM-formatted data directly into Family Atlas. Family Atlas also includes more than 700 historical articles related to your family's settlement areas.
- Photographs and Genealogy:
- Restoring Damaged Photographs, by David L. Mishkin of Just Black & White (Genealogy.com)
- Only within this past decade has the science of professional photographic conservation come into its own right. Photographic conservators are developing many ways of reviving and reclaiming deteriorated photographic images.
- Protecting Family Memories from Time, a Genealogy.com article.
- For more than a century, people have been enjoying the ability to capture special moments in time with photographs. Although some photographs last for generations, none of them are immune to the effects of time. In this article, you will find out the best way to care for your photos, in hopes of saving them for future generations.
- Using Photos in Your Research, by Lyman D. Platt, Ph.D., Genealogy.com
- The blessing and the bane of genealogy is in the old photographs that lie hidden away in attics, closets, drawers, neighbors' homes, and in local histories, libraries, museums and archives. In this article, Dr. Platt covers important information about using photographs in your genealogical research
- Scanners and Scanning, by Halvor Moorshead, Editor of Family Chronicle Magazine
- Scanners are being added to home computers at a very rapid rate as their price goes down and their performance improves. Most genealogists are involved in sharing and caring for the past and have many uses for a scanner. Here are a few tips and tricks. (A Genealogy.com article.)
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- Recording Grave Information:
- Recording Cemeteries with Digital Photography
- The use of a digital camera can help you record more tombstones in less time. Learn how to use this great new tool. Article written By Steve Paul Johnson - December 21, 1999.
- Tips for Photographing Gravestones by Maureen Taylor, Genealogy.com
- With the right equipment, bright sunlight and a little patience you can use images of headstones for educational purposes or add them to a family photo archive.Taking a picture is an ideal way to document the information on the stone without causing deterioration. By using these helpful tips you will be able to create professional looking images of cemetery markers.
- Cemeteries — Not Just for Halloween Anymore
- Death records are one of the three cornerstones of genealogical research. Along with birth and marriage records, they help create the outline of a family's relationships to each other. They are often also the records that are easiest to obtain for documentation of your family.
 Whether you're trying to find a source for death information or supplement information you already have, cemetery records and gravestones are excellent resources. In addition to birth and death dates, which most gravestones have, many also contain information about military service, cause of death, and other relevant genealogical information.
- Chalk One Up For the Ancestors, by: Kathleen Last (a Cemetery Junction article)
- Copying tombstones, either for your own family or to record a listing to share with others, can be a rewarding pastime. Over the last few years I have tried several methods to make it easier to read those old, worn stones that we all run across. Here are some of my tricks, tips and suggestions.
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- RootsWeb Review
- RootsWeb Review is the weekly e-zine of RootsWeb.Com Inc.The premier issue of RootsWeb Review was published on 17 June 1998. This weekly e-zine provides news about RootsWeb, its new mailing lists, home pages, and Web sites. Additionally, it presents a continuing tutorial on using RootsWeb's resources, along with monthly statistics, news from major hosted activities such as USGenWeb, USGenWeb Archives, WorldGenWeb, and Cyndi's List, plus schedules for IIGS/RootsWeb IRC. It also brings you information of interest to RootsWeb users and to the international genealogical community. Regular features include Connecting through RootsWeb, Geek Speak, Letters to the Editors and Humor with a genealogical or technical slant.
- Genealogy Articles:
- What Is a First Cousin, Twice Removed? , a Genealogy.com article.
- Sometimes, especially when working on your family history, it's handy to know how to describe your family relationships more exactly. The definitions in this article should help you out.
- Discrepancy Charts — Organizing the Inconclusive, by Michael John Neill (Genealogy.com)
- Discrepancies and inconsistencies are a matter of course in genealogical research, as is dealing with those inconsistencies.
The purpose of discrepancy charts is to summarize the conflicts
between different record sources and to indicate the source for each conflicting piece of data. Using discrepancy charts will more easily allow you to weigh the evidence.
- Genealogy "How-To" Guide from The Family Tree Maker.
- The Genealogy "How-To" Guide is a great companion for your family research. It contains addresses and information about hundreds of archives and libraries that both beginner and experienced researchers will find useful. It also has step-by-step instructions for locating different types of family information and printable census, correspondence and other forms to speed up your research.
- The Bigger Picture, by Donna Przecha (A genealogy.com article)
- While I tend to be an "ancestor only" genealogist, I find I often have to look at "The Bigger Picture." This means expanding my research to siblings, cousins, fellow church members, co-workers, shipmates, and even an entire village. By looking at "The Bigger Picture" you can often learn many details about a specific ancestor.
- Using Timelines in Your Research, by Donna Przecha (A genealogy.com article)
- Timelines can be an interesting supplement to your genealogy research. A timeline is a chronological listing of historical events, a sort of "history in a nutshell" as it generally is limited to one line or very short entries.
You can also create your own timelines by hand, but when a timeline feature is incorporated into a genealogy program, you can display timeline events in with the events in your ancestors' lives.
- Obituaries: More Than Meets the Eye, by Kory L. Meyerink, AG (A genealogy.com article)
- Obituaries are like several other records we encounter in our everyday, modern life; ones we often fail to consider when researching our ancestors and other relatives.
- Finding Female Ancestors, by Donna Przecha (A genealogy.com article)
- In genealogy research, finding the female always presents special problems. Of course, the primary problem is that women usually change their names when they marry, but part of the difficulty also arises from a woman's legal and social status at various times in history.
- Missing Fathers, by Donna Przecha (A genealogy.com article)
- Just because your ancestor was born illegitimate doesn't mean that the father's line is abruptly truncated. There are many ways in which the father might be revealed. Examine birth and marriage records carefully.
- Collaborating via Computer — Get It Right!, by Gary Hoffman
- Finding ancestors is hard to do alone and becomes easier when we find a relative with information they are willing to share. (A genealogy.com article)
- Genealogy in the New Times, by Gary B. Hoffman (A genealogy.com article)
- A person is not just his birth date, marriage date, and death date. People — even ancestors! — are real individuals who take up space over time. I believe every person deserves to be better described than by these basic tokens. Don't forget that history is about people and bloodlines are only the beginnings of people. After our birth, the other relationships in life influence us more and more.
- Beyond the Keyboard, by Kathleen W. Hinckley, CGRS (A genealogy.com article)
- Some long-standing genealogical research problems are being solved because of the Internet resources. What may have taken months to accomplish in a traditional library can be done in minutes at the keyboard.
The Internet is but a mere window into the world of resources available to genealogists. For every published genealogy, cemetery index, marriage record, census enumeration, or military reference found on the Web, there are thousands more in libraries, archives, courthouses, and museums.
- (Publishing a One-Family Periodical), by Barbara Brixey Wylie (A genealogy.com article)
- Most of us do want to stay in touch with our extended family. Most of us would...if we had time. But the realities of daily life leave little opportunity for communicating with distant relatives — or for researching dead ones.
A one-family newsletter could allow us to stay up-to-date with what's happening within the extended family and, at the same time, it could allow those of us who are researchers to gather and share information about our ancestors.
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