by Josephine Hardy | Feb 18, 2014 | ICAP Gen
Sometimes the biggest barriers to genealogical research are the ones you can’t control. A few days ago I received an email from the Comune of Messina informing me that my search for the marriage record of Giuseppe and Giuseppa Sulfaro was unsuccessful because...
by Josephine Hardy | Feb 13, 2014 | ICAP Gen
Yesterday I briefly touched on the need for a genealogist to be structured and organized in their research. Today I tell you how easily distracted and disorganized I am. Yes, I’m already contradicting my words. Off to a good start! The world of genealogy is so...
by Josephine Hardy | Feb 12, 2014 | ICAP Gen
As any genealogist would know you need a strategy and very good organizational skills if you hope to discover anything about your ancestors. The world is such a diverse and expansive research landscape, and the billions of people who have existed before us did not...
by Josephine Hardy | Feb 7, 2014 | ICAP Gen
This is the short story version of how I got into genealogy: It was on an evening in December 2010. My boyfriend, now husband, was on Ancestry.com. We were chatting about how one of his relatives had started researching their family tree and had found out a lot of...
