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Are you curious about your Family History and want to know more, but just don't have the ability or time to do the research yourself? Would you like to discover what interesting things might have happened to your Ancestors?

How much do you know about your ancestors? Were they pioneers, entrepreneurs, immigrants looking for a better life or just for religious freedom? What challenges did they face, what was their day-to-day life like? Do you know what motivated them to come to America?

Do you look like your ancestors? What characteristics or traits have you inherited from your ancestors? And what can they teach you about yourself and about your own life patterns and choices?

These are some of the questions that encourage us to gain more knowledge about our ancestors. Are there additional questions that have motivated you to explore your family history?

If you are curious about who your ancestors are and what places and events shaped their lives, then you have come to the right place. Genealogy research can help you learn about your family's unique history, traditions, origins, and how those things led to your life.

Allow The Genealogy Assistant be your guide on a voyage into the past. The Genealogy Assistant offers a number of genealogical and historical research services that can be tailored to meet your needs to can help you in the search for your ancestors. For us the reward is in the journey, whether we are researching your ancestors or our own.

Back up Genealogy Data & Media life span!

A few weeks ago I had my computer break down. Of course I panicked because I was in the middle of a bunch of work, but I could breath a little sigh of relief because I did have a backup of my working hard drive and data drives. It is still a little disconcerting to be without the computer.

I brought the computer to the shop and it was checked out. The hard drive was fine, but the main board was going to need to be replaced, but due to the age (it just turned "vintage" to Apple's standards) It was not going to be economical to repair. I found a place that had a rebuilt of my laptop for a reasonable price and purchased it. THANK GOD! I did the hard drive swap and I was in business.... No problems. I am glad that the hard drive was good and ready to go for the transplant, but if it had bit the dust, I would at least have my backup hard drive.

I thought that this was a good time to write a Blog post to give others a head up about the dangers of loosing years maybe decades of research. ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATA! You will want to have back ups of all your genealogy data and this is not just limited to electonic copies. Make copies of any paper records you have and if possible, store those paper copies in another place other than where you have your "originals", I always print out 2 copies of paperwork related to my client work.

Home of Jan Matejko

There are many famous people who are from Poland and one of the well known artists in the world, also was from Poland.

I had the chance to see his home in Kraków-Krzesławice, which included some of his works of art.

The display of old furniture is fantastic and are really works of art themselves.

Two Wrongs Don't Make it Right!

treegenealogymid I had a discussion not long ago with a client and something came up that I thought all new genealogists should be aware of. I often see family trees posted online that 1) do not have any sources & 2) that have been copied from other family trees without sources.

It is first important to note that you should NEVER copy information from another family tree & put it in your own tree until you have verified all the information by locating all the documentation to prove it.

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"In Their Words - German" - Released

T he long awaited day has arrived. The series of books that are guides to researching docments in other languages is complete. For awhile now, the translation guide books for Polish, Latin & Russ...