Category Archives: Geniaus

An ABC Journey through books.

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By Jill Ball. After reading Shauna’s recent post I decided to write another genealogy ABC, focusing on books. Throughout my genealogy journey hundreds of books have supported me, many are listed on my Librarything and/or Goodreads pages. Please join me as I remember some. A is for …(Road) Atlases When we hit the research road, we follow a paper map in addition to GPS devices. Road Atlases are easier to handle than a large map and provide a lot of detail. We … Continue reading

Accentuating the positives 2023

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2023 was a difficult year for me and it was not easy to find positives in a sea of losses. I wasn’t able to answer many of the topics that Jill Ball listed in her annual quest to accentuate the positive. This post therefore represents a personal review of my genealogy-related experiences in 2023 that I feel able to share. I spent some time in 2023 revisiting research on my paternal ancestry. I wrote an article on the family of … Continue reading

Remembering to Accentuate the Positive 2023 – Jill Ball’s yearly challenge.

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Jill Ball has set a January challenge on GeniAus for a yearly blog to Accentuate the Positive, 2024 is my fifth yearly effort looking back over 2023 this time.  The challenge has 20 set points to cover, and some I’ve varied just a smidge. On revisiting some old research I found that doing an involved timeline of all instances of events within the surname within the subject’s locality helped ‘zone in’ on possible folk to consider and research deeper. In … Continue reading

Grave Journeys

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By Jill Ball aka GeniAus My husband and I love to travel to distant lands where we enjoy visiting sites of historic interest or natural beauty. We don’t mind a dab of architecture either. While we often visit cemeteries, graveyards and memorial parks on our geneajourneys we also visit cemeteries for pleasure. Cemeteries tell so much about the life, history, and customs of the places we visit. The monumental masonry can be spectacular or quirky and the landscapes can range … Continue reading

Accentuate the positive 2022 – Jill Ball’s yearly challenge

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Jill Ball has set a challenge for several years on GeniAus for a yearly blog to Accentuate the Positive. I first completed this as a year in review for 2021, so this post now looks back on 2022. I commented at the beginning of last year’s post that 2021 had presented many challenges; I therefore looked forward to 2022. Sadly challenges remained, not only in local, national and global events but especially on a personal level. It is probably even … Continue reading