TAG: HeritageQuest
The Great Thanksgiving Listen: Discover the Uplifting Effect of Family Stories & Memories
Posted in Explore and Discover on November 9, 2022 at 6:00 am
By Melissa Rhoades & Dana Mannino Would you like this year’s Thanksgiving celebration to make your guests feel uplifted, connected, and hopeful? If so, you can participate in The Great Thanksgiving Listen, created by StoryCorps. Each Thanksgiving, StoryCorps encourages us to sit down with an elder, mentor, family member, friend, or someone we […]
Tags: adults, community, family, food, friends, HeritageQuest, kids, oral history, Project Memory, resources, storycorps, teens, tips, tweens
The Hunt for a Family Tree: 3 Genealogy Tips from a Seasoned Amateur
Posted in Explore and Discover on September 22, 2021 at 6:00 am
I’m an amateur in every sense of the word, learning as I go without any real education and coming back to my tree whenever there’s a spare minute, sometimes after months at a time. Along the way I’ve learned a few genealogy tips and truisms—things I wish I’d known at the beginning and, in some cases, things I wouldn’t have appreciated u […]
Tags: adults, ancestors, ancestry, Ancestry Library Edition, books, census records, digital resources, family history, Gale, gale courses, genealogy, guides, HeritageQuest, public records, research
