Build Your Own Locality Guide: Research Your Ancestors from Anywhere Premium
No research guide for your ancestral homeland? Make your own using these tips and resources.
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How to Use the FamilySearch Tree As a Source
Tap into the resources of the massive FamilySearch Family Tree with these suggestions.
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Tutorial: Use The Internet Archive for Genealogy
Find billions of genealogical materials—old digitized books, audio recordings, archived web pages, and more—at the free Internet Archive.
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Comparing the Five Major Newspaper Websites for Genealogy Premium
Looking for digitized newspapers? We’ve got the scoop on five newspaper giants: Newspapers.com, GenealogyBank, NewspaperArchive, Chronicling America and Fulton History. Here’s how they compare.
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How to Share Family History Stories on the Big Genealogy Websites Premium
These automated storytelling tools at your favorite genealogy websites—Ancestry.com, FamilySearch and MyHeritage—make it easy to share family stories online.
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How to Use the David Rumsey Map Collection for Genealogy
The David Rumsey Map Collection boasts over 115,000 unique resources on its free online portal. In this video, Sunny Morton provides a thorough walk-through of this tool.
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A Tour of the FamilySearch Research Wiki
FamilySearch is the world’s largest free genealogy website, and its Research Wiki is a hefty how-to portal. In this article (with bonus video), Sunny Jane Morton provides a quick tour of this helpful genealogy tool.
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Save the Stories of Your Stuff with Artifcts
Preserve and share your family's favorite heirlooms with Artifcts.com, a service for attaching written or spoken memories to objects. Sponsored by Artifcts.com
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1950 Census Research Guide
The 1950 census documented names, ages, occupations and more for over 150 million people. Here's everything you need to know about using the 1950 census for genealogy research.
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8 Resources for Finding Family in the 1940s Premium
Learn about your family between the 1940 and 1950 censuses with these key genealogy resources that reveal how and where they lived throughout the 1940s.
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