Category Archives: General Help

My Genealogical Year in Review – 2017

Dontaylorgenealogy.com My blog received the most significant amount of effort from me during the year. I wrote 143 posts during the year – A couple of months with 14 posts, a couple of months with nine posts, but the result … Continue reading

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Hypothesis: Lenora Busbee’s Parents

Howell/Vinson/Busbee Line By Don Taylor [Occasionally, I am asked about my process of solving difficult genealogical process and breaking through brick walls. The following describes one of my methods.]  Lenora Busbee is one of the brick walls I have on … Continue reading

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Maine Marriage Records

By Don Taylor I recently had the opportunity to be a Genealogy “brick wall buster,” which is a person who helps someone break through their genealogical brick walls. They say teaching a subject helps the teacher learn the topic even … Continue reading

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Digitize those Photos!

By Don Taylor I advocate digitizing everything that can be digitized, particularly photographs. I was recently speaking with a person at the museum about a photo that she had of the Cunningham family. She showed me the old, faded photo … Continue reading

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Five Steps to Genealogical Success

Complete genealogical foundations help answer family questions  A Case Study: D’Amico By Don Taylor A friend was telling me that his wife knew her ancestors, the D’Amico side, were Italian, but didn’t know where in Italy they were from. He … Continue reading

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