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Title of discussion thread	Replies	Author	Start time	Last reply	Recs	Views
Some links to get you started	16	kdmorris	Feb 2012	Mar 2021	7	27857
Top 100 Genealogy websites for 2013	12	me b zola	Feb 2013	Dec 2018	9	31111
Archived Ancestry/Genealogy Group - From DU2	0	kdmorris	Dec 2011	Dec 2011	3	26378
Explain these cousins to me, please	8	Captain Zero	May 27	May 30	0	1034
Trump donor buys large stake in Ancestry.com	14	Dem2theMax	Aug 2020	May 26	7	4133
Family surprise!	9	LeftInTX	Nov 2018	May 6	6	3400
Want to learn my mother's birth, marriage and death dates; she died when I was 7 or 8,	10	elleng	May 5	May 6	8	1324
SPEAKING OF newspapers.com...	3	Montauk6	Apr 20	Apr 20	10	1403
I know the 1890 Federal census was destroyed in a	8	Boomerproud	Jul 2020	Mar 25	1	5259
Apache Junction Jane Doe	0	CanonRay	Mar 24	Mar 24	2	822
"The Woman With No Name"	6	CanonRay	Mar 21	Mar 23	1	1269
Genetic genealogy is helping to crack cold cases and identify victims left nameless for decades.	0	CanonRay	Mar 2021	Mar 2021	6	2400
US Marriage registration records, how to find what they contain ?	5	OnDoutside	Feb 2021	Mar 2021	0	1397
I don't know how newspapers.com works.	16	Grasswire2	Jan 2021	Feb 2021	3	2393
well, the adoptees might just be the most fun part of all this.	2	mopinko	Feb 2021	Feb 2021	7	1634
Nancy Pelosi, Finding Your Roots airs tonight, PBS	0	littlemissmartypants	Jan 2021	Jan 2021	9	1627
well i found an irish cousin. adopted. also, this guy- [View all]	55	mopinko	Oct 2020	Dec 2020	13	1606
well, i traced my connection to the great michael dwyer.	16	mopinko	Dec 2020	Dec 2020	5	1047
Trying to explain bloodlines	36	Marthe48	Aug 2019	Dec 2020	1	1955
According to 23andme, I'm related to Louis XVI! Any other royals here?	12	bif	Apr 2019	Dec 2020	2	3113
I got back into gen.	14	Marthe48	Sep 2020	Dec 2020	1	2254
Any Daughters of the American Revolution here?	48	MoonchildCA	Oct 2020	Nov 2020	2	3142
so, very strange. i got back into my ancestry account.	16	mopinko	Nov 2020	Nov 2020	2	1835
WWII mystery	15	frogmarch	Oct 2019	Nov 2020	1	2363
holy cow. i sent a message to my nearest dna match. she is adopted.	49	ihas2stinkyfeet	Oct 2020	Oct 2020	9	2677
planning a trip to the olde sod this winter. tracing the tree. my heritage	2	ihas2stinkyfeet	Oct 2020	Oct 2020	0	1102
Found scrapbook and looking for suggestions for what to do with it.	8	seaglass	Dec 2019	Sep 2020	6	5961
Another WWII mystery - Eleanor Bradley Harris	25	frogmarch	Nov 2019	Jul 2020	4	4190
I'm meeting my second cousin for the first time next Sunday and	7	no_hypocrisy	Oct 2019	Apr 2020	9	7711
No one knew why the kids in 2 Amish families were dying suddenly. Now researchers have some answers	5	Historic NY	Jan 2020	Jan 2020	10	5409
Baking sourdough bread today	4	Marthe48	Jan 2020	Jan 2020	4	2732
Recipes Dating Back To The Inquistion Reveal A Family's Secret Jewish Roots, NPR	3	appalachiablue	Dec 2019	Dec 2019	12	2054
HELP! A non-family member "owns" and controls my grandfather's "Find-a-Grave" page...	12	NurseJackie	Dec 2019	Dec 2019	2	1464
DAR	10	shanti	Oct 2019	Dec 2019	0	1262
The genealogy boom has hit a roadblock. The Trump administration plans huge fee hikes for immigratio	2	Eugene	Dec 2019	Dec 2019	9	1044
Irish Research : Public Records lost during 1922 fire to be recreated through virtual reality	3	OnDoutside	Dec 2019	Dec 2019	4	1016
How Volunteer Sleuths Identified a Hiker and Her Killer After 36 Years	3	CanonRay	May 2019	Nov 2019	13	1681
Arkiv Digital (Swedish) and FindMyPast are free this weekend Nov 8-10 - FYI n/t	1	seaglass	Nov 2019	Nov 2019	1	883
The Dionne quintuplets: The exploitation of five girls raised in a 'baby zoo'	2	mfcorey1	Nov 2019	Nov 2019	5	968
Researching obits - have you run across this and what were your results?	1	seaglass	Oct 2019	Oct 2019	0	822
Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln - Alonzo Chappel painting	1	frogmarch	Apr 2019	Sep 2019	12	1196
Googling my Dad's WW2 unit this weekend, I found this on eBay!	29	Dennis Donovan	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	82	5643
Our son had his DNA tested through 23 and Me and it showed that he had a small percentage of	23	Cousin Dupree	Aug 2018	Sep 2019	1	3075
Surprise, surprise!	6	no_hypocrisy	Aug 2019	Sep 2019	1	922
Thomas Kaine/Kane	0	shraby	Aug 2019	Aug 2019	1	677
Software for Genealogy	11	QED	Jun 2019	Aug 2019	0	1696
I don't know that this is the place to post this	21	blur256	Apr 2019	Apr 2019	4	1645
Free access to Irish records on ancestry.com today!	0	CountAllVotes	Mar 2019	Mar 2019	2	896
DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy	9	CountAllVotes	Feb 2019	Mar 2019	6	1420
Help.	1	easttexaslefty	Feb 2019	Feb 2019	2	1041
Research Advice Requested	4	no_hypocrisy	Jan 2019	Jan 2019	1	1335
If you're looking for photos of ancestors, people posting to findagrave.com	2	shraby	Dec 2018	Dec 2018	10	1311
Immigrant Name Changes	7	no_hypocrisy	Jun 2018	Nov 2018	2	1739
Question for you. I need some advice.....	5	Little Star	Nov 2018	Nov 2018	0	1357
Need one more Fold3 look-up. I promise this is the last one!	5	Dem2theMax	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	0	1199
Desperately Seeking my Birth Father	9	Lyric	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	12	2565
Does anyone have access to Fold3? Need a look-up of possible WWII vet for memorial dedication.	4	Dem2theMax	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	2	1077
Robert Taylor - sailor-d.1879	0	shraby	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	3	1089
A surprise DNA match - how would you handle this?	19	seaglass	Jun 2018	Sep 2018	0	2268
ancestry.com DNA results	16	CountAllVotes	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	1	1833
When researching in old newspapers, don't count on the first name being right.	11	shraby	Jun 2018	Jul 2018	2	1485
Another unknown burial	0	shraby	Jul 2018	Jul 2018	0	1431
Found a Homer Regan	0	shraby	Jun 2018	Jun 2018	0	1152
The last township that survived the Highland Clearances	0	csziggy	Jun 2018	Jun 2018	13	1530
Question about Ancestry.com: My brother and I have been sharing a membership for a few	4	LuckyLib	Jun 2018	Jun 2018	1	1619
Please help me with this imponderable.	12	no_hypocrisy	May 2018	Jun 2018	3	1922
Family Search.org	14	LeftInTX	Nov 2017	May 2018	0	2831
I need help from someone in Brooklyn, N.Y.	13	Delmette2.0	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	0	2116
Found a George Taft who lived in Chicago	1	shraby	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	1	1247
My brother-in-law died on Christmas Day, 2009.	8	cbreezen	Feb 2018	Apr 2018	1	2037
Has anyone done research on family from Sweden?	8	seaglass	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	0	1934
Happy Dyngus Day!	1	Ohiogal	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	2	1515
Anyone looking for this chap? From Boston but buried in Evergreen cem. Manitowoc Wisconsin	0	shraby	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	1	1181
unknown sailor died 1924	0	shraby	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	1	1244
Resistance Genealogy	4	Justice	Feb 2018	Feb 2018	22	2129
MyHeritage - opinions?	11	seaglass	Feb 2018	Feb 2018	1	1749
Interesting DNA results Scots, Irish, Brit - North Carolina/Georgia	14	LeftInTX	Nov 2017	Jan 2018	4	2515
Anyone who's had DNA testing done...	33	pipi_k	Sep 2014	Dec 2017	6	8989
It is next to impossible to do any significant online genealogy research	10	Brother Buzz	May 2017	Dec 2017	4	5814
Not sure how to reply	39	CountAllVotes	Sep 2017	Nov 2017	0	4553