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How FamilySearch full-text search is helping me break down brick walls in Bagni di Lucca – Part 1
If you’ve used FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search feature, you know it feels like magic. For decades, finding ancestor details in unindexed records meant clicking through digital image rolls page by page; essentially flipping through thousands of dusty microfilm frames on your computer screen. Before then, you had to physically visit the archive where the microfilms were…
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Mapping a Surname: A How-To Guide, using the Domenici families of Bagni di Lucca as an example
Every genealogy project starts with a question. Mine began with a woman who carried the surname Domenici, and lived in San Cassiano di Controne in Bagni di Lucca, in the early 1800s. Yet, she was not born in San Cassiano – she had married into the village from surrounding villages, and little information was known about…