Becraft/Beecroft Researchers

Genealogy research is a lifetime endeavor.  Over the years, people have picked up the hobby and made contact with a wide variety of cousins who share in the same passion for uncovering our ancestors.  Many of these people have been lost to us as resources.  If you are a Becraft/Beecroft etc. researcher, make yourself known.  From our collective research comes clarity in the pursuit of our ancestors.

Lorraine Plotner Becraft - My first recollection of Lorraine was a letter she sent out to Becraft's everywhere.  My dad received one of her letters inquiring about our lineage.  From the responses she received to these letters Lorraine and her husband built one of the largest collections of family sheets on Becraft's in the US.  Sadly, Lorraine quietly passed away a couple of years ago.  The status of her collection is unknown.

Mildred and Stephen Becraft - Mildred and Stephen first came to my attention through correspondence they ... (more)

Ten Genealogy Research Suggestions

So, you are new into genealogy research?  Been doing it for a while?  Ready to publish your content perhaps and you want to use one of the big sites to push your line out and publish it.  The following are some suggestions based on things that seem to make sense.

• If you are going to publish something, publish it once, update it often, but don't publish a new copy every time you publish.  Or remove the old copies once you are happy the new copy has made it onto the site.  There are tons of published lines that people have re-published over and now you can find them with all their various levels of updates on these places.
• Be aware of how your lines get published.  One person published a line for each surname in their file not realizing all the common names got published each time she did this creating copies of the same individuals over and over and over for all the surnames she did this for.
• Source your data.  Many years ago, I decided ... (more)
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  Becraft/Beecroft Introduction

  
  What's this?  A blog.  Hmmm... it is free and it is attached to the url I use for the Becraft/Beecroft, etc. Genealogy site.  So, what the heck!
  
  I'm going to give this a try in conjunction with the genealogy research and publishing that is already underway through this site.
  
  I can assure you that any research, content, corrections, omissions, have been done honestly and without any forethought of malice or intent to harm or embarrass anyone.  Some of our ancestors apparently did enough of that kind of thing all on ... (more)
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