The Year Ahead – November 6

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

November 6 – Chase down family stories about your Native American ancestor. Get leads at www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/research-individual.

I don’t have any Native American ancestors, but my half-siblings do. Their ancestors were from the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

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The Year Ahead – November 5

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

November 5 – After casting your vote today, search for your ancestors’ voting records. Contact the county election commission to ask where old records are.

Even though, this is a great suggestion. Since this is a presidential election year, you might want to wait until after January 6^th, your county election commission might be busy doing recounts or other stuff.

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The Year Ahead – November 4

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

November 4 – If you missed your favorite genealogical conference, see if you can purchase a syllabus or video recordings.

FYI – RootsTech (March 6-8, 2025) registration is now open. There is so much available online for RootsTech, check out past years videos too.

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The Year Ahead – November 3

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

November 3 – Take advantage of the “extra hour” you get today from Daylight Saving Time ending to search an online collection you haven’t tried.

Just for the record, not everyone will be getting an “extra hour”. I lived for 20 years in Arizona and they don’t observe Daylight Saving Time. Basically, with their hot summers, it would increate energy consumption if sunsets occur later in the day. I don’t know about that, because it wasn’t like I changed my AC when the sun went down. However, it did mean that taking a nightly dip in the pool could occur earlier, because it was usually dark by 8-8:30. However, the Navajo Nation, which is located in parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, does observe daylight saving time.

Also, Hawaii doesn’t observe it either because of its location near the equator means that there isn’t much variation in the hours of daylight throughout the year. Thus in 1967, Hawaii’s officials decided that the state didn’t need to disrupt its schedules to account for changes in daylight.

Some US territories also do not observe daylight saving times, including American Samoa, Guam, The Northern Marina Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Plus, many countries don’t participate either.

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The Year Ahead – November 2

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

November 2 – Study how US state borders changed over the decades using references such as the Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States, dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas.

US State borders usually changed when they were territories to becoming states. For example, my home state of Wisconsin; was at one point, part of the Michigan territory but broke off to become its own territory. That territory included all of present-day Wisconsin, as well as parts of North and South Dakota and all of Minnesota and Iowa. When it finally became a state, it lost that section of Minnesota too.

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The Year Ahead – November 1

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

November 1 – Roman Catholics celebrate All Saints Day today. Use the FamilySearch Wiki https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Latin_Genealogical_Word_List  to learn some Latin.

As a Roman Catholic and having many relatives as Roman Catholic, I do recognize some Latin phrases since many record books column headings are written in Latin. Annoying? Well it can be beneficial too, because English, German, Irish and so forth will have the same column headings.

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