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The Treeamily team aims to make it easier for its community members to create diverse visualizations of their family trees and let them enjoy the process to the fullest. After months of developing and testing the beta version with our users, we are happy to introduce our first major update. In this article, we will …

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In the very beginning, researching your heritage can be overwhelming and daunting. Fortunately, there are many genealogical blogs providing helpful tips, tools, and insights. We are sharing good genealogy blogs that you can keep an eye on. See our list below! Are You My Cousin? In her blog, Lisa Lisson shares her experience and publishes …

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Did you even notice how some of you behavioral patterns – be it towards ourselves, our partners, children, or friends – are pretty much a copy of our parents’ behaviors? We either mimic them or go fully to the other end of the spectrum. And if we look closer, often their behavior will have the …

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We are going through tough times due to the COVID-19 virus. Many of us have moved across the country to be with our families, others are relegated to Skype, unable to be near their loved ones. The challenges brought by this new virus are intimidating and cause perplexities. While universities and schools are being shut …

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There is a lot of guesswork and uncertainty in genealogy research. Many records contain wrong information, mistakes can be made in documents transcriptions, and, of course, there’re misspellings in censuses. What’s more, in the 19th century when publishing family genealogies was a popular thing, many genealogists often relied on legends, gossip, and erroneous family stories. …

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Tracing your family history is a great way to maintain a connection with your past. It seems that with unlimited access to the internet genealogy search has never been easier: all you need is to enter a name and a date and then browse through multiple records. However, this approach is likely to make you …

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Have you ever had to make a family tree at school? It seems that everyone was given a genealogy project at least once during the school years. For children, tracing ancestry can be confusing since it may be hard for a child to understand the entire lineage. Family trees help to make the process more …

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Christmas is coming so you’ve probably started thinking about a family celebration. What makes a family reunion successful? Though everyone has their own ideas about an ideal event, most would agree that a great family reunion reconnects family members and lets them share stories about their heritage.

Trump’s extreme policies at the border and deportations have garnered the most attention and outrage. It sounds like the current mood in the American Administration is the further you can trace your roots back to the Mayflower, the more American you are. So we decided to run quick genealogical research comparing the last two US …

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With Thanksgiving is just around the corner, you must be gearing up for buying gifts. Gift selection can be tough and no one wants to take the risk of picking the wrong one. We’ve come up with some gift ideas that will leave a favorable impression on the recipient.

Christmas is fast approaching and it’s time to think about presents for your loved ones. While it’s nice to know that express delivery exists, you shouldn’t rely on express shipping as the only strategy.

“Every American who has ever lived, with the exception of one group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants,” these are the words of the 35th president of the United States John F. Kennedy. Though immigration remains a topic of debate, the country as it is now, featuring innovation, creativity and many …

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The Kennedy family is one of the most authoritative political families in the United States, having produced a president, three senators, three ambassadors, and multiple politicians and human rights activists. In our previous article, we’ve covered the older generation in the Kennedy dynasty and now let’s move on to the younger one.

Looking for something special to spice up your home decor? Many people love decorating home with photographs. We pick the best photos that remind us of the happiest moments and our loved ones. However, there is a more creative way to decorate your home and keep the memory of your family members alive.

Money doesn’t grow on trees. Due to the increasing number of online databases and websites with historical records, it feels like genealogy research has never been easier. However, many of the resources can’t be accessed without a paid subscription, resulting in a steep fare for just a hobby. Though such resources are convenient (and if …

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Winter has come. With all the marriages, affairs and secret children, the tangled web of houses and families in the popular Game of Thrones series can be confusing even for the biggest fans. Let’s take a look at the family trees of the surviving Game of Thrones houses made with the help of our online …

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Here are Treemily’s 7 exciting gift ideas to help preserve and celebrate your family history.

GEDCOM saves a lot of work, especially if you need to transfer a family tree which contains many family members.

We’ve compiled a list of the largest databases to help you track your ancestors and lost relatives from around the world.

The Kennedy family history definitely deserves particular attention, so let’s take a closer look at their origin and family tree.

Knowledge of their ancestors gives children a sense of belonging and their place in the world. Even simple activities may turn into an interesting lesson of family history if planned out properly.

Almost every newbie researcher faces the problem of having inadequate skills to carry out extensive research. To get better results from your research you must develop a set of skills.

With technological advances and digitalization of records and databases, the searching process has become easier than ever before. Here are some tips to tracing family roots and finding your birth parents.

In this article, we will give you 7 crucial tips to successfully conduct genealogical research.

Our sense of smell can trigger memories and emotions better than any of our other senses. Sometimes scents can evoke such strong memories that it feels like you’ve been pulled back in time.

It’s rather common for siblings to get different ethnic results from a DNA test, even though they have the same parents. There are several factors that can affect ethnic heritage.

When you start doing research, the first thing that comes to your mind is asking your family members about your family roots. Who else other than your parents and grandparents can tell more about your family history? However, completely neglecting online sources would be unreasonable.

For people researching their family history, the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to make new plans and set new goals for improving their ancestor’s research strategy. If you don’t know where to start from, here are some goals for you to work towards in 2019.

Updated on June 3, 2020 Conducting a family history research can be an exciting journey, though difficult. Anyone who has ever dug into their family history knows how time-consuming (and even frustrating) the process can be, from data research to creating a genealogy visualization with the help of a family tree chart maker. The do-it-yourself …

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The genealogy boom started around 20 years ago. However, records, resources, and even technology were limited at that time. These days you can find all the necessary information with a single click so you basically don’t even need to get out of the chair to find records.

This famous wizarding family from a series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling is known for their red hair, money misfortunes and goodwill towards half-blood wizards and Muggles. The family made the Sacred Twenty-Eight, a list which comprised families that did not intermarry with muggles. However, they bewailed their inclusion in this list since, as they said they had connections with Muggles and were proud of it. Because of that fact, the Weasley family gained disapproval of the pure-blood doctrine advocates and were dubbed blood traitors.

DO I HAVE ROYAL BLOOD? “Do I have royal blood?” Nowadays more and more people are starting to ask this question. Many of us fantasized about being a descendant from a wealthy, noble family in childhood – the premise of numerous fairytales, books, and movies. Today the DNA tests are more affordable and accurate, meaning …

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