Clues can be anywhere on a document, including an 1893 newspaper notice. Part of the homestead […]
“dirigio” from the Latin, meaning “to direct.” Sometimes I’d like to give some “dirigios” to people […]
I think I’ve seen about every reasonable variant for the last name of Trautvetter that there […]
I generally advise anyone with a relative who lived during the era in which Revolutionary War […]
They are unofficially calling it the “Bureau County ‘Who Do You Think You Are?'” The official […]
Names can create all sorts of problems for the genealogist. The first illustration in this post […]
By popular demand, we’re bringing this course back…. Organizing Genealogical Information: A Short Course With Michael John Neill […]
I’m beginning to think that I do. When writing a recent blog post, I realized that […]
In “Father Comes to Visit in the 1880’s and Sponsors Two Grandchildren,” my “non-immigrant” relative’s visit to […]
I gave the speech over fifteen years ago, when the amount of online information was not […]
Ancestry.com recently announced the “Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920” on their website (it’s probably been there for […]
You don’t think you’ll ever use an online tree in your compiled research. That means you […]
The “Probate Records on Ancestry.com” presentation will be held again on 3 October at 10:00 central time. […]
From a distance it looks like any other tree, but is that new family tree you […]
This was posted to Genealogy Tip of the Day a few weeks ago, but how it was discovered […]
The three men of interest on this 1840 census enumeration are not related by blood, but […]
According to the title at Ancestry.com, Minnesota has wills and probate records dating as early as 1801. […]
I’ll be the featured presenter at the annual genealogy seminar sponsored by the Palatines to America […]
For the last few years, I’ve posted announcements about new or updated FamilySearch databases on this site. After […]
The following databases are showing as new or updated on FamilySearch: Missouri State and Territorial Census Records, […]
The following database is showing as updated on FamilySearch: Louisiana, Orleans Parish Vital Records, 1910, 1960
The citation in the bottom of the image accompanying this post really isn’t in proper Evidence Explained format. […]
The following databases are showing as new or updated since our last posting: Utah Death Certificates, […]
The passport application of Julia Van Hoorebeke was made out in Rock Island, Illinois, on 5 […]
The following databases are showing as updated on FamilySearch: New York, Probate Records, 1629-1971 Massachusetts, Town Clerk, […]
When viewing any record or document used in your genealogical research, ask yourself: how did this […]
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