Whether you’re missing a naturalization record or finding an unexpected one, this session helps you discover how female ancestors — both foreign-born and birthright — gained, lost, or regained citizenship in the United States between 1790 and 1945. US citizenship and attendant rights for women could be fragile, depending on marital status, prevailing laws, social norms, and other shifting factors. Examples of US naturalization and citizenship records, and search strategies for finding these records are featured in this presentation.

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The webinar will be live on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at:

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The recording of today's webinar by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, "Dissection & Analysis of Research Problems: 10 Steps to a Solution” is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/ESM with a webinar membership.

Solutions to tough problems are not just “found.” They are analytically constructed. This session explains how to break down problems into their most-critical elements. It summarizes the types of questions and tests that should be applied to each. Then it demonstrates how to analyze, rank, and assemble the resulting answers into an effective research plan. In this process you’ll walk through ten steps, learning how to apply micro and macro analysis, evaluate prior conclusions, argue with their evidence, develop targeted worksheets, and complete a plan of action that can be pursued as time permits.

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The webinar will be live on Friday, October 27, 2023 at:

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The recording of today's webinar by Michael D. Lacopo, DVM, "“She Came From Nowhere…” – A Case Study Approach to a Difficult Genealogical Problem” is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

This lecture illustrates the joys and pitfalls of Virginia research as well as a employing a problem-solving approach utilizing social history, female research, and family analysis to identify the parents of Elizabeth Stith, the ancestor “from nowhere.” One need not have Virginia ancestors to see the Genealogical Proof Standard at work!

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The webinar will be live on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at:

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The recording of today's MyHeritage webinar by Lisa Lisson, "Are You Missing Important Family History Clues in Your Old Family Photographs?” is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free.

Sometimes, writing about our lives can be difficult. After all, we may believe we haven't done anything of note. Genealogists trace lineages, so why write about ourselves? I believe our descendants and families are more interested in something when they have context. So why not write about your experience with something they are familiar with?

Let's take the telephone as an example. Depending on your age, the phone has gone through many changes over your lifetime. Today, a phone is part of a more complex device that offers the internet, an audio/video recorder, GPS, and a camera. That's a far cry from when I was a teenager, and you had to use a pay phone if you were not home, and if you were, you had to share the phone with your family. Private conversations were rare since a pesky younger sibling might pick up the phone in a different room and listen to your plans. And for my mother's generation, party lines meant no private conversation.

Photo Courtesy of Gena Philibert-Ortega

So, how has the phone changed in your life? If you consider telephones, there is so much you can write about. Phones have historically been expensive, and at one time, they had to be rented from the phone company. That means that not all of our families would have owned or rented a phone, meaning immediate communications during disaster or emergency would have been limited. 

Photo Courtesy of Gena Philibert-Ortega

My story with the telephone from my teenage years includes details of my dad's work. My dad worked for the railroad and didn't have a regular "shift." He was on the "extra board," meaning that he would be called in to work when needed. Answering the phone meant making money. He lost work that day if he didn't answer the phone. So, in those days, having a teenager who LOVED being on the phone with friends was a problem. We had call waiting, but that wasn't enough to ensure he got the calls our family needed. So my parents spent the extra money to get me my own phone number. I was the only teenager I knew with my own phone number. That allowed me to be on the phone, and my family didn't need to worry about missed calls. Today, having your own phone number isn't seen as that uncommon, but in those days it was.

Photo Courtesy of Gena Philibert-Ortega

What's your telephone story? How has technology changed through your lifetime? Some prompts you could write about include:

• Do you remember your childhood phone number?
• What did the phone you use look like (rotary dial, buttons, etc.)
• Did your family have a phone? When did they get a phone?
• Did you have family who worked for the phone company?
• What features did your phone have (call waiting, etc)?
• Who could you call and who could you not call (for example, what was long-distance? What was the cost?)
• How did pay phones work?
• What were your family phone rules (no calls after a certain time, how long you could be on the phone, etc.)
• What phone etiquette were you taught?
• Do you have any phone stories?
• What photos do you have of you on the phone or the phone in your home?

What are your phone stories? Please share them in the comments below and share them with your family.

Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, instructor, and researcher. She blogs at Gena's Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera. You can find her presentations on the Legacy Family Tree Webinars website.

Family photographs put names to the faces of our ancestors. But…. are you missing important family history clues hidden in them? Learn how to use MyHeritage’s photo tools to enhance your old family photos to analyze them for important social history clues for your ancestors!

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The webinar will be live on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at:

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The recording of today's webinar by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL, "The Gentlemen Judges: Justices of the Peace” is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Landowners but legal laymen, America’s early justices of the peace served up ground-level justice and local governance, creating records unparalleled for genealogists.

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The webinar will be live on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at:

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