August 2024 Newsletter

 We are dedicated to helping the DIY genealogists and family historians. Each of our podcasts have an associated blog post article. Matter of fact, even our YouTube channels have associated podcast episodes. Just subscribe to our one stop Genealogy Reference Guide (linktr.ee/hittinthebricks) for both the podcast and a3genealogy associated articles.

Get Started with This Free ancestryDNA Kit 
We are gifting an ancestryDNA kit for one lucky September "suggestion/feedback" giver. All entries must be submitted by 30 Sep 2024. Free? Yes, the Feedback and Suggestions Campaign

Or You Can Use this Link to Purchase. AncestryDNA $39

The Woman Citizen

The Woman Citizen was one of the most influential of the American women’s suffrage periodical. UC Berkeley Library owns some print copies of both periodicals, and most of the issues of both publications are available online via the HathiTrust.

Underutilized Research Records

 Did You Know....?

There Were Laws Just For Women?

Use these laws to further your family research.

We know our female ancestors are hard to trace. But, on the otherhand, they can be our biggest clue to solving a family brickwall. They may have unexpected document that connects a couple generations.

                     Read
Our Ancestor's Love Cost Them Their Citizenship
5 Tips Using Misogynistic Laws to Solve Brickwalls. 

Where to find posted how-to articles?

We give you choices. We do suggest you bookmark, follow or subscribe to your preferred method.

1) All of our how-to articles since 2008 can be found on our a3Genealogy site.

2) If you are only looking for the longer explanation and cast studies for our podcast, just go to our Hittin' Bricks with Kathleen tab.

3) If you want everything written on a topic, either cleak on the tabs in gray, or there's a search bar in the upper left-hand corner. Just type in your topic or keyword (i.e. Civil War, that we narrow down all the titles that are under Military/NARA).

August Highlights
It was all about your ancestors' athletic dreams - high school to Olympian. We grabbed the popcorn and glued ourselves to the Olympic Games in Paris
26 Jul - 11 Aug 2024. It also raised family questions. Was Grandpa really that good at downhill skiing? Where's the scrapbook that we used to go through at Grannies' house? Were those families stories inflated? How can I research these ancestors? 

Check out these:

Podcast:
Researching Your Athlete: High School to Olympian

Article: Need step by step tips? Here's the accompanying article:              

6 Tips to Tracing Athletic Ancestors 

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