Author: Lisa Louise Cooke

San Francisco City Guide Premium

Did your ancestors leave their hearts in San Francisco? Learn how to trace them in our genealogy guide to research in the City by the Bay.

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January 2012: Tools of the Trade Premium

Get information on all the latest tools in this Resource Roundup

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10 Ways to Enhance Your Family History With Video Premium

Online video has become seriously popular, and it can bring you genealogy benefits as well as giggles. Discover ten ways you can use online video to enhance your family history.

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Phone Tapping Premium

Here are some sources for old telephone books, which may give you contact information for relatives who are now unlisted.

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10 Steps for Tracking Down Living Relatives Premium

Employ these 10 investigative strategies to locate living relatives and discover key family history clues.

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Organizing Your Hard Drive: Photo Filing Tips Premium

Struggling with a system to organize your digital photos? Think like a census taker and try this method of filing pictures by head of household.

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Toolkit Tutorial: Organizing Your Hard Drive Premium

Can't find where you saved that census image or photo of Aunt Lucy? You need a computer filing system—we walk you through the process of setting up one seven-step solution.

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Quick Hits: Online Historical Maps Premium

Looking for a pre-1700 map of the Americas as the Europeans found it? Yearning to survey the land your ancestors tilled in Cobb County, Ga.? Old maps can point you in your ancestors’ direction, allowing you to locate places, visualize migration routes and see the world as your forebears knew...

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