Thomas L. Clough
My name is Tom and I am an experienced genealogist, a private pilot, a freelance writer and a gadget junkie. I also enjoy travel and photography. Most of my writing is on those topics with occasional excursion into other areas I might feel inclined to write about.
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Converting Ahnentafel Numbers to RelationshipsAs useful as Ahnentafels are, they can be hard to read. The long, often unformatted, list of numbers, names and dates needs some interpretation to make the relationships clear. This article will explain easy wayto convert the numers to relationships. -
Summer Haiku: StormsA Haiku for summer -
Milwaukee County ZooThe Milwaukee County Zoo is considered one of the nations finest zoological attractions. -
Four Tricks for Getting Past Brick Walls in Your GenealogyBrick walls are normal part of genealogy research that happen to all family historians. Here are a few techniques for getting past them -
EAA Museum in Oshkosh , WisconsinThe EAA museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin is a great weekend destination for anyone in Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, the upper peninsula of Michigan or Minnesota. -
Use Your Digital Camera for Family History ResearchDigital Cameras are an important tool for the family historian. Here are a few ideas to make yours even more useful for genealogy research. -
A POW StoryThe three part article originally appeared as a series in the Ladysmith News, Ladysmith Wisconsin, from February 25, 1949 to March 11, 1949 and is transcribed word-for-word. -
Including Family Stories in Your GenealogyRegardless of their truth, I believe family stories should be preserved and passed on to future generations. However, they should be clearly identified as family stories and not claimed as fact. -
Googling for Family HistoryGoogle, Inc offers many online tools that can be used by the family historian to do better genealogy research
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The Genealogical Proof StandardThe conclusions we reach about about an ancestor must have sufficient credibility to be accepted as proven.
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Understanding the Types of Genealogical EvidenceGenealogists label source records and information as primary or secondary, direct or indirect, original or derivative. Recognizing the differences is an important part of evaluating the reliability of the data you cite. -
Family Line Focused GenealogyThe idea of researching all the thousands of ancestors you have can seem very intimidating. If you take them one branch at a time though, the task becomes much more manageable.