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How to Find Old Yearbooks and School Records Online Premium
Learn about your ancestors' school days through yearbooks and other school documents. These websites will help you find them.
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Freedmen’s Bureau Records: A Genealogist’s Guide
Freedmen’s Bureau records are more accessible now than ever, online at sites like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch. Learn what you can uncover in them.
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Unusual Records: Researching County Histories Premium
Tracking down your ancestor's hometown or place of birth isn't always easy. In this edition of Unusual Records, Rich Venezia shares another resource for finding where your ancestors resided.
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Now What? Poorhouse Records Research Premium
In this Q&A, David Fryxell reveals how to research your ancestors in poorhouse records.
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How to Search Patents for Your Ancestors Premium
If you’re curious about the inventors in your family tee, you can make some amazing discoveries! Follow this basic formula to trace an ancestor's patent(s).
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Home-Run Heritage: Researching Athletic Ancestors Premium
Score a big win for your family history by researching the sporting days of your athletic ancestors.
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Find Genealogy Clues in Old Home Movies Premium
Your old home movies are filled with family history. Learn how to preserve these treasures and mine them for research clues.
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Genealogy Workbook: Institutional Records Premium
Tuberculosis sanatoriums. State hospitals. Poor farms and almshouses. “Insane” asylums. Old folks’ homes. Orphanages. Prisons. Almost everyone has a relative who—whether willingly or not—became a resident in an institution for a short period or even the better part of a lifetime. Or perhaps an ancestor or relative...
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How to Read Old Coroner Records
Discover the genealogy research clues in old coroner reports. We'll tell you where to find them and how to understand them.
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The Genealogist’s Guide to Tax Records Premium
They say the only two certainties are death and taxes. Genealogists are well-acquainted with the former, but tax records elude many. Here's how to find them.
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