Creating free online memorials for your deceased relatives and ancestors is a wonderful way to remember...
Creating Free Online Memorials for Deceased Relatives: A New Option from Ancestry.com
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Memory Lane Content
How to Identify Old Cars in Photographs
Follow these tips to identify old cars in photographs from your family albums. You can often identify the make and...
Flour Sack Dresses: Thrifty Fashions from the Great Depression
Flour sack dresses show how resourceful housewives of the past "made do" with whatever was at hand. But they...
Remembering 9-11, And Why You May Recall It So Clearly
Sixteen years ago, nearly 3,000 people died in events so horrific that the date itself has been seared into world...
Tour Your Childhood Home with Google and Google Earth
Ever thought of visiting your childhood home? Here's a story about people who are actually buying theirs back. For the...
Ancestral Landmark Discovery Using Google Earth for Family History
Thom learned how to use Google Earth for family history after watching my free Google Earth for Genealogy video, and...
Look-Alike Family Photos: These Relatives are 80 Years Apart
Do you have any look-alike family photos? Check out these uncanny resemblances--and more ideas for what to do with old...
This Ancestor Wrote a Poem like “Where I’m From”
Recently Genealogy Gems podcast listeners penned their own versions of a family history poem, "Where I'm From." This...
A “Where I’m From” Video and More from Our Poetry Contest
Here are the results from the Genealogy Gems "Where I'm From" poetry contest. They include this fantastic short video...