“Have you thought about what obituaries cost and if there are practical alternatives for letting people […]
It wasn’t on the FamilySearch for very long, but it was there for a short time on […]
Your ancestor and their spouse are enumerated in census records over a period of fifty years […]
We are excited to offer this new class on using US census records. Virtually every US […]
I’ll be speaking at the San Mateo County, California, Genealogical Society’s May 2019 workshop in Menlo […]
I read an analysis of two 19th century US census entries that contained different information for […]
The 1935 Declaration of Intention for James Neill, Sr., was a treasure trove of genealogical information. […]
The 1902 order probating Adam Trautvetter’s will in Hancock County, Illinois, referenced the following heirs-at-law and […]
Reader CSM on our Facebook page made a suggestion to add to the “photo research log” […]
We all have them. Now I have one more. This picture is of my mother, Connie […]
OCR searches of digitized images do not actually “read” the images. They look at the individual […]
The family of Irish immigrant James Neill arrived in Lake County, Indiana, in the 1920s. By […]
It is nice to be able to refine searches at Newspapers.com to specific newspapers. The problem for […]
My grandfather’s youngest sister, my great-aunt Ruth, passed away in Des Plaines, Illinois, on 6 January […]
My maternal grandmother, Dorothy (Habben) Ufkes, probably “did the math” on this page in her copy […]
We’ve mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: facts cannot be owned and facts cannot be […]
It is important to understand what this database is. It is an index of various indexes […]
I recently posted to my personal Facebook wall: Ethnicity estimates: a marketing tool that ends up […]
Join Michael on one of these research trips in 2019: Salt Lake City’s Family History Library […]
The 2 April 1902 will of Barbara Haase includes the names of two witnesses. One was […]
Let’s just say this image comes from the “insanity” record of a relative. “On the 6th of […]
It always pays to read the entire document and think about the entire document, not just […]
These were my “not New Year’s Resolutions” from 2015—but they are worth repeating. I’m not big […]
This is the signature portion of a mortgage executed by three of my ancestors on 15 […]
We’ve converted my online AncestryDNA class into a self-contained series of lectures and handouts that you […]
I’ve always found land descriptions and land records fascinating. Maybe it’s just the math geek, farm […]
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