High Fives - June 15, 2018

High Fives are articles or blog posts I have read during the week that I find interesting, and perhaps are pertinent to my research. Sometimes there are only a couple and sometimes there are quite a few.

Trust But Verify Your Relative's Family Tree

~by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama at Fortify Your Family Tree

Not enough of that going on with some ancestry trees. 

Digitising images on seal moulds: an exciting resource

~by Jacqueline Moon at The National Archives UK

Makes me think of secret messages closed with a blob of wax and marked by the sender’s seal. BTW when researching my Seale ancestors most of my results are “…the great seal of...”  sigh! 


Always Keep Backups of Your Online Genealogy Information

~by Dick Eastman at Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

I sync my Ancestry tree to Family Tree Maker and back up the FTM files (including all media it has downloaded) to my external hard drive – but is that enough?  Probably not. I think Dick has good suggestions we should all follow. 

For more helpful weekend reading, see what posts these bloggers liked...

Saturday – Gail Dever, Crème de la Crème

Sunday – Randy Seaver, Best of the Genea-Blogs