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EasyGenie provides tools for genealogists to trace family history and preserve research for future generations. Genealogy Endures™ with EasyGenie!

We are a family-owned business located outside of Boston, and make all of our charts in the USA.

10/26/2026

When collectors of unusual antiques pass away, the collections often end up in antique shops or consignment stores. This collection of salt and pepper shakers seems relatively small, but I’ve seen or heard of absolutely enormous collections, including somebody in my hometown, whose mother passed away with a collection of more than 6000 teapots that filled every shelf and closet in her home. I have no idea what happened to it. .

10/25/2026

Dan Hummel was a deep soul, a Vietnam veteran who left the U.S. to split his life between Asia and a remote corner of County Cork. He passed away in the summer of 2025, but this account captures a glimpse of his life in Ireland.

https://www.irishcentral.com/travel/dan-hummel-us-remote-west-cork

10/21/2026

Why vital records are so important to genealogists: they often contain information you will never find anywhere else.

10/19/2026

Huge time, saving AI tip for genealogists! How to quickly create a transcript of an old vital record using Google Gemini.

10/17/2026

We recently shared videos about using ChatGPT and Claude for transcriptions, now let's try Gemini (free version) for vital record transcriptions.

10/16/2026

Ancestry isn’t your long-term genealogy preservation solution. Binders and paper are.

10/15/2026

A family in Texas discovered WW2 artifacts in a storage unit after the death of their father, who had worked on refurbishing the battleship USS Massachusetts during the 1990s. The family voluntarily turned over the items, which the FBI authenticated.

https://www.heraldnews.com/picture-gallery/news/history/2026/09/15/world-war-ii-documents-books-returned-by-fbi-to-uss-massachusetts-fall-river/91782404007/

10/09/2026

It's so easy to create a fan chart from Wikitree. Here's the process, step by step.

10/08/2026

Long after the rise of agribusiness, mechanization, and genetically modified crops, one group of American farmers are still doing things the old-fashioned way: the Amish. Antique hay balers were last manufactured about 100 years ago, but these two specimens have been fixed up and used on an Amish farm in Northern New York.

10/04/2026

Happy Smoot Day! I’m sharing a weird bit of Boston history from the Harvard Bridge, connecting Cambridge and Boston. This explanation is courtesy of the MIT Museum “68 years ago, in the middle of the night, members of MIT’s Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity laid freshman Oliver Smoot end-to-end across the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge. When the sun rose in the morning, there were 364 tick marks painted along the sidewalk, indicating that the bridge was 364 Smoots long (plus or minus an ear).
The tick marks are repainted each year to commemorate the hack, and are even referenced by local police in accident reports. Incredibly, Oliver Smoot would go on to become—of all things—the head of the American National Standards Institute, and later, the International Organization for Standardization.”

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