Archive for '"How to" Articles'
Planning For A Successful Genealogical Research Trip—Part One
27 June 2009
By Jim Onyschuk
When planning your genealogical vacation, some advance preparation is essential. First, you have to know exactly where your ancestor lived. For example, if your grand-father was Ivan Ivanovich Ivanchuk and was from Zeleny, you wouldn’t want to visit the village of Zeleny near Zapporiziya, when he actually came from Zeleny near Zhytomyr. [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2009 under "How to" Articles, Birth Records, Roots Tour to Ukraine.
Tags: planning, Research, trip
Comments: 1
Online Tutorial on Ancestry.com Search
2 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
Professional genealogist and nationally know lecturer and author Barbara Renick has created a new tutorial video especially for UpFront with NGS readers, entitled “Searching at Ancestry Part 1.” In this audiovisual slideshow, Barbara describes the new Ancestry.com search engine. Using screen illustrations of the older search screens as [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2008 under "How to" Articles, Tutorials.
Tags: ancestry.com, Tutorials
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How to Address an Envelope for Ukraine
17 November 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
By Jim Onyschuk
It is acceptable to address your mail in Latin alphabet, similar to the way you would in Canada, for most large Ukrainian cities. Before 1991 (Soviet times) we wrote [...]
Posted: November 17th, 2008 under "How to" Articles.
Tags: addressing envelopes, letters
Comments: 1