The 2019 United States list This is a great resource once you feel you have exhausted the big online directories and need a few […]
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Going over your Genealogy Again. Once an ancestor has been researched, it can be difficult to know how often should we go back and […]
I have an ancestor by the name of Sam Hopkins who has stumped many generations in the family. Samuel Hopkins Born 1827 in Indiana Living […]
Review: 35mm Film to Digital Conversion Do you have piles of these vintage slides stored in a box? Here is a great solution to having […]
Research Recap An effective search strategy for people living after 1940. It could be used to find long lost relatives or finding those elusive obituaries. In Google, […]
I have been fortunate to have hundreds of photographs of my ancestors prior to 1915. Some of them labeled, some not. On one line […]
In 2007, my dad decided to get a DNA test done to possibly assist with his genealogy research and to find out the source […]
Interviewing relatives is a key task in starting genealogy. I recommend interviewing as many people as possible because everyone has a different perspective on […]
To get started finding genealogy on Facebook, please read the article below by guest contributor, Eric Orheim. Thanks, Eric! Facebook can be a wonderful […]
Sometimes, it’s hard to know ‘how to’ begin with searching online when we are talking about the vast resource at our fingertips: the internet. […]
In the last 50 years or so, people have been fairly particular about spelling. There are a right and a wrong way to spell […]
Where to begin… To get started searching for your ancestry, there are a few pieces of information that can help you get started. The […]
Most people on the internet know how to conduct a Google search. Google is that giant search engine that searches the entire content of […]
If you are new to researching genealogy online, as I am sure you have discovered there are very different methods for gathering information than […]