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Legacy Story Project with Todd Hansen
Todd shows you the power of your life story, how to capture what matters most in your story, how to interview others, how to use technology to make your videos look and sound their best, and how to preserve those memories for generations to come. You can learn at your own pace in Todd's video lessons either from your computer, tablet, or phone. The course includes downloadable worksheets to guide you through each process with Todd's proven formula that he has used when interviewing hundreds of people in all 50 states and other countries.
Contact Todd for bulk pricing discounts, to have him teach in person, or speak to your group.
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Search the 1950 US Census TODAY! FREE!
The 1950 US Census images have been released by NARA (the National Archives and Records Administration in the U.S.) and are viewable on their website for FREE.
TIP: In the search returns, three buttons you'll want to understand: Population Schedules button is for viewing the images/scansHelp Us Transcribe Names button is for improving the indexShare button is to share the link on Twitter or Facebook, or to simply copy the link Location SearchThere is a location index and you're able to search by state, county or city, and enumeration district and then search a batch of images/census scans for a locale, but then you'll need to go page by page, looking for an ancestor's name the old-fashioned way. You'll have better results if you can narrow the location search to a state AND a county/city.
Name SearchThere is a name index provided by NARA but it is a very preliminary work, so there are many false posit…
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