“Everything is relative except relatives,
and they are absolute.”
-Alfred Steiglitz
Family history is a way to bring our ancestors to life.
This blog details my journey as a genealogist and is a means to record my notes, recent discoveries, and the stories of my ancestors. The goal of Relatively is to inspire other family historians to preserve and share their own family stories.
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Hendrickson Y-DNA: Update
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My Founding Fathers
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Mum’s the Word
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Mom and Dad in the 1950 U.S. Census
Every ten years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a federal census to gather the names and other details of every person living in the country.…
Moving Day Madness
I just moved. It seems like I have done a lot of that, especially over the last ten years. This time was more painful than…
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