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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us at the Seattle Public Library for "Roots, Routes & Revolution: Discovering the Stories of Our Ancestors," Saturday, September 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. Free registration is required to attend. www.spl.org/event-calend...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's time to register for the Mastering Genealogical Documentation Study Group. We will study the book by Thomas W. Jones and refine our skills for writing citations. Sept 9-Oct 28, 2026 on Wednesdays at 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern, $95. Register here: square.link/u/85YyTdjF

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

MemriTree is a new site that makes it simple to instantly transform research and family stories into beautifully-illustrated, well-written stories you can share and preserve. You can try it for free at: www.memritree.com

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MemriTree

Turn family memories into beautifully illustrated stories.

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Registration is open for our GRIP course, "Not 'Just' Farmers: Records, Relationships, and the Reality of Their Lives.' See the YT interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBk... More details: grip.ngsgenealogy.org/courses/not-...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Registration is open for the EE4 Study Group with me. 5 weeks, Wednesdays, April 1, 2026 – April 29, 2026. Choose either 10am Pacific/1pm Easter or 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern. You must own a copy of the book. $75 to register here: genealogypants.com/studygroups/...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Only 3 days left to register for the IGHR course - Repository Research: From Website to Doorway. “I took 'Repository Research' last year. It's fantastic - one of the most useful institutes I've attended. I use what I learned on a regular basis.” See ighr.gagensociety.org/repositories/

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'm busy prepping my lectures for the upcoming Olympia Genealogical Society seminar, "Decoding Your Ancestors: The Tech Edition with Cyndi Ingle." Saturday, February 07, 2026, 08:50 AM to 02:30 PM Pacific. See: olygensoc.org/events/2026-...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Registration open: MGP Study Group. $95, Wed. 3pm Pacific Feb 11-Mar 25, 2026. This beginner/low-intermediate studies the book Mastering Genealogical Proof by Thomas W. Jones. You need to own a copy of the book (physical book recommended). genealogypants.com/studygroups/...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

On May 3rd I was honored to be given the Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Distinguished Service by the Dallas Genealogical Society. Thank you to everyone at DGS for this award in Lloyd's name. It means so much to me. The clip from their meeting starts at about 13:33: youtu.be/Dn91s4bRPbo?...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New on CL today: The Branching Out Genealogy Podcast is your go-to guide to family history news, tips, tech, and “tea.” Hosted by Elizabeth Swanay O’Neal, CG®, and Tami Osmer Mize. branchingout.show

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Branching Out - Home

Branching Out Genealogy Podcast listen on: Apple | Amazon | Spotify | Goodpods | YouTube Latest Episode RootsTech 2025 Wrap-Up Welcome to the Branching Out Genealogy Podcast Welcome to the Branching O...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Join me tomorrow as part of the free Legacy Family Tree Webinars Marathon! I will be on April 3. 2025 at 11pm Eastern, "Links That Last: Managing and Understanding URLs," familytreewebinars.com/webinar/link...

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Links That Last: Managing and Understanding URLs - Legacy Family Tree Webinars

URLs here, URLs there, URLs everywhere. Which one do you choose to use for your citation? Which one do you use for your research notes? How long should it be? How...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Today Cyndi's List is officially 29 years old! Still your FREE starting point for genealogical research. Please be sure to stop by and BROWSE the categories. Browsing helps prod your thinking and point you in new directions. Thank you for all your support all these years! cyndislist.com/categories

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Registration is open for our GRIP ccourse, The Spirit of the Inland Seas: Research in the Great Lakes Region, 22-27 June 2025. Read all about it in Cari's blog, genealogypants.com/2025/02/27/a...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

An important discussion - free from APG and open to everyone: Saving A Nation’s Stories: The US National Archives and Why Advocacy Matters Sunday 2 March 2025, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Eastern Open to all; registration required members.apgen.org/Calendar/mor...

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Association of Professional Genealogists

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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Association of Professional Genealogists

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We are busy preparing all new materials for this summer's virtual GRIP Course, coordinated by Paula Stuart-Warren, Beyond Digging Deeper: Sources, Methods, and Practices. Registration is open and we hope to see you in class! grip.ngsgenealogy.org/courses/beyo...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Today on CL: A new category with 74 links - Anglican & Episcopal, cyndislist.com/anglican/. It's ready for more new links, so please send me what you have (if I don't already have it!). To submit new links: cyndislist.com/submit/

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Cyndi's List - Anglican & Episcopal

Your FREE genealogy starting point with more than 317,000 genealogy links, categorized & cross-referenced, in more than 200 categories.

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Cari Taplin (Genealogy Pants) and I have developed a new study group, based on Evidence Explained 4th edition. Please join us! Check out her blog post for more information. genealogypants.com/2025/02/24/n...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Today on CL: new and updated links to the One-Room Schoolhouse Center, including this directory of America's One-Room Schools oneroomschoolhousecenter.weebly.com/americas-one...

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America's One-Rooms

Photo above of Cornell School, Johnstown, OH

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Today on CL: Do you explore collections on university library sites enough? PennState Libraries, Digital Newspapers, includes so much including Civil War era newspapers, libraries.psu.edu/about/collec...

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Digital Newspapers

This collection includes The Behrend Beacon, Centre Daily Times Obituaries Index, Penn State Harrisburg's Online Archive of Student Newspapers. Hazleton Collegian Newspaper, Historical Digital Collegi...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hit a brick wall? Ready to learn about sources, information, & evidence & to analyze & correlate to solve research problems? Register for the Mastering Genealogical Proof Study Group. Saturdays, 2pm Pacific, Feb 15-Mar 29, 2025. $95. Study the book by Thomas W. Jones. square.link/u/SPKZqVbx

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Today on CL: updated 72 links to The Knowles Collection -- six free databases on FamilySearch with more than 1.2 million Jewish people. Read more: knowlescollection.blogspot.com/2022/03/acce...

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Accessing the Knowles Collection (7 Mar 2022)

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

New on CL today because David Rencher is excited about it! From the Registry of Deeds Ireland: Ireland, Properties, from 1298 to 1975, www.familysearch.org/search/full-...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today on CL: Updated all my links to John Grenham's Irish Ancestors site, the companion site to his terrific book. This site is a must for anyone with Irish ancestral research. www.johngrenham.com

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Irish Ancestors

Find your Irish ancestry with John Grenham's expert system.

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Today on CL: Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters, revwarapps.org. Roster transcriptions & pension applications or bounty land claims, including transcripts of collections at LofV. Use your browser's Ctrl+F (Find) function to search the page for specific surnames.

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Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Applications & Rosters

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Registration is open for the Mastering Genealogical Proof Study Group with Cyndi Ingle. Saturdays, 2pm Pacific, Feb 15-March 29, 2025. $95. We study the book by Thomas W. Jones. See: square.link/u/SPKZqVbx

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Observation of the day: broken links are common (even on Google). I have links added just last year that are already broken & links from 1998 that still work. Please report a link when you find it broken. I truly appreciate your help in keeping this a useful genealogical research tool!

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Today on CL: a new sub-cat under Methodist and under Religion & Churches - Circuit Riders & Traveling Ministers. What new links can you submit for me to use in this unique category? cyndislist.com/methodist/ci...

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Cyndi's List - Methodist - Circuit Riders & Traveling Ministers

Your FREE genealogy starting point with more than 317,000 genealogy links, categorized & cross-referenced, in more than 200 categories.

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Today on CL: a digitized collection of British Columbia City Directories, 1860-1955. This is one example of how libraries and archives are bringing us valuable free sources for our research. What library collection online is your favorite? www.vpl.ca/digital-libr...

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British Columbia City Directories | Vancouver Public Library

Vancouver Public Library's collection of digitized British Columbia city directories dating from 1860 to 1955. Directories contain detailed historical information about British Columbian communities, ...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Today on CL: when it's helpful, I replace broken links w/links to the Wayback Machine. Today's example was a site, OrphanFinder.com. It disappeared. But it lives on at Wayback. I label all such links with (Wayback Machine) in the title. See today's What's New page, www.cyndislist.com/whatsnew/12-...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

New on CL today: Northeast Slavery Records Index, an online searchable compilation of records that identify enslaved persons and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. nesri.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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Northeast Slavery Record Index

Records of Enslavement from Northeast Colonies and States

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today on CL: An amazing example of what one person can do to make a difference in genealogy. They Had Names: African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia, by Stacy Ashmore Cole. She's sharing sources with more than 37,000 references to named African Americans. theyhadnames.net

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They Had Names – African Americans in early Liberty County, Georgia, Records

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Getting ready to be on Genealogy Quick Start TV tongiht at 8pm Eastern. I will be talking with @Shamele Jordon about interviewing your family members about their memories. Join us! www.youtube.com/c/GenealogyQ...

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Genealogy Quick Start

Welcome to our community. We look forward to interacting live at 8:00 PM ET, every other Tuesday, as we multicast to Facebook and YouTube. Producer and host Shamele Jordon has the pleasure to be joine...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

New on CL today: Advantage Archives digitizes newspapers in small library collections free online. They put up a state by state directory: communityhistoryarchives.com/browse-by-st...

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Browse By State

Browse by state in our 1,100+ Community History Archives directory. Find your history easily when you search by state.

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

New on CL today: History of Generations, historygenerations.life/search. Determine the birthplaces of residence of ancestors in Ukraine. Allows you to use two methods simultaneously: determining the birthplace area of the father's surname bearers; and of the mother's surname bearers.

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History of Generations

«History of Generations» – це пошукова система, основна мета якої – допомогти вам у визначенні ареалів виникнення тих чи інших прізвищ.

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New link just added to CL: "The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monument of Wales is attempting, for the first time, to map historical administrative boundaries in detail. Starting with the 19th century Ordnance Survey mapping..." historical-boundaries-of-wales-rcahmw.hub.arcgis.com

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Historical Boundaries of Wales

Discover, analyze and download data from Historical Boundaries of Wales. Download in CSV, KML, Zip, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF or PNG. Find API links for GeoServices, WMS, and WFS. Analyze with charts and thema...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Registration is open for our 2025 NGSQ Study Groups with Cari and Cyndi. See: genealogypants.com/studygroups/... There are some more spots open with Cyndi on Mondays at 3:30pm EST, Tues 1pm or 7pm EST w/Cari Taplin. $95 and you must have access to NGSQ articles as a member of NGS or at your library.

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NGSQ Study Groups

Analyzing NGSQ articles with MGP Principles Study Group This is a monthly study group that runs January through November each year, and will examine one National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGS…

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

On Saturday I'm doing an all-day seminar for the Henderson County Public Library in Kentucky. It is hybrid, so online and in-person. I hope you will join me! hendersoncounty.librarycalendar.com/event/tri-st...

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Tri-State Family History Conference | Henderson County Public Library

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Struggling with writing citations? genealogypants.com/studygroups/ Registration is open for the MGD Study Group lead by Cyndi Ingle, Oct 2/5 - Nov 20/23, 2024. US$95.00. You must have Mastering Genealogical DOCUMENTATION. Choose from: Wed. Noon PST or Sat. 2pm PST.

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

From Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, The Family Genealogists and Long-Lost Relatives Study, www.sfu.ca/gerontology/...

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The Family Genealogists and Long-Lost Relatives Study

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Registration is open for the Mastering Genealogical Proof Study Group with Cyndi Ingle! The fee is US$95 - two sessions to choose from: Wednesdays at Noon Pacific, August 7 - Sept 18, 2024 Saturdays 2:00pm Pacific, August 10 - Sept 21, 2024 genealogypants.com/studygroups/...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

I will be presenting "Navigating Your Way Through FamilySearch," for the Genealogical Society of Queensland on Saturday June 1 @ 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM AEST (which is Friday May 31st at 4pm Pacific for me!) www.gsq.org.au/event/naviga...

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Events for May 2024 – GSQ

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

On Thursday, 30 May 2024 at 19:00 BST, I will be presenting for the Society of Genealogists, "Foreign Language Tools for English-Speaking Genealogists." See: members.sog.org.uk/events/65774...

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VeryConnect

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

I'm presenting to the Cobb County Genealogical Society tomorrow, Tuesday May 28, 2024 at 7pm Eastern, "Best Practices for Success in Facebook Groups for Genealogy," cobbgagensoc.org/ccgs-event/g...

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Events for May 2024 – Cobb County Genealogical Society

Topic: Best Practices for Success in Facebook Groups for Genealogy Speaker: Cyndi Ingle Cyndi Ingle, a genealogist for more than 44 years, is the creator and in

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

I was very pleased to spend time with The Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast to talk about the importance of genealogical education and, in particular, attending genealogy institutes like IGHR. It was a lot of fun! It's online now. familylocket.com/rlp-306-inst...

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RLP 306: Institutes and Continuing Education with Cyndi Ingle

In this podcast episode, Diana and Nicole introduce Cyndi Ingle, the creator of CyndisList.com, a renowned resource for genealogical research. Cyndi, with over 44 years of experience in gene…

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Terrific news from the U.S. National Archives, "A new state-of-the-art digitization center . . ., is allowing the agency to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical federal government records faster than ever before." www.archives.gov/news/article...

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Registration (FREE!) is now open for Legacy's 5th annual 24-hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon. 24 classes in 24 hours - April 11-12, 2024. Here's the link to sign up - and this link helps support Cyndi's List as an #affiliate: legacy.familytreewebinars.com?aid=9118

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Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Looking forward to presenting a 3-lecture seminar for the Georgia Genealogical Society, on Saturday March 30, 2024 starting at 11am Eastern. We hope you will join us! gagensociety.org/events-semin...

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