Family History in the Attic
Friday June 27, 2008
One thing that many beginning genealogists don't realize is just how much family history can be discovered at home - in the attic, in the back of a closet, stuffed ... Read More
New Online Edition for Everton's Genealogical Helper
Thursday June 26, 2008
Leland Meitzler, editor of popular genealogy magazine Everton's Genealogical Helper, wrote this week to let me know that it is debuting a new Online Edition this July - hosted by ... Read More
Travel Back in Time - Genealogy Road Trips
Tuesday June 24, 2008
Many years ago my mother spent a wonderful summer day getting lost on back country roads in North Carolina looking for old family cemeteries. It was hot and sticky (welcome ... Read More
Cowkeepers to Woolstaplers - Historic English Trade Directories Online
Thursday June 19, 2008
FamilyRelatives.com announced the addition of a neat new record set this week which peaked my interest - Pigot's Trade Directories. These historical occupational directories list individuals along with their profession ... Read More
Ancestry's World Archives Indexing Project
Thursday June 19, 2008
Diane Haddad and the Ancestry Insider both blogged this week abut the new volunteer indexing project which is apparently launching next month at Ancestry.com. It appears to be similar to ... Read More
Salvaging Flood and Water Damaged Photos & Papers
Wednesday June 18, 2008
Cleanup has begun following this past week's historic flooding in Iowa, and many people are just beginning to take stock of what has been lost. As you might expect, many ... Read More
Genealogy Reaches Top 50 Status
Wednesday June 18, 2008
Genealogy is popular - we all know that! But genealogy still generally gets overlooked by the mainstream media unless it has something to do with the roots of the latest ... Read More
Tips for Locating Web Sites That Have Moved
Tuesday June 17, 2008
As many of you are likely aware, a big group of USGenWeb sites formerly hosted on RootsWeb.com have moved in recent months to new servers. While most of these transitions ... Read More
Unclaimed Persons Revisited
Tuesday June 10, 2008
As a result of the recent Unclaimed Persons video at RootsTelevision, genealogists are coming out of the woodwork (or maybe I should say crawling out of their family trees) to ... Read More
FamilySearch Update: More Free Records Added
Tuesday June 10, 2008
The FamilySearch Record Search pilot has just added 3.1 million records from the 1850 U.S. Census for the states of Maine, New Jersey, and Ohio. An additional 117,000 unindexed digital ... Read More
New One-Step Features from Steve Morse
Saturday June 7, 2008
Steve Morse is at it again - adding even more helpful tools for his genealogist to his One-Step Web site. The latest additions, according to Schelly Talalay Dardashti at Tracing ... Read More
What You Won't Find in the Records
Wednesday June 4, 2008
I have a copy of the marriage certificate for my grandparents marriage in Melun, France, and the passenger list for my grandmother's arrival in America on a "war bride" ship ... Read More