10 Ways to Connect With Distant Cousins
Distant cousins can swap family stories, share photos and add to your family tree. How do you find them? Try these 10 techniques.
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Genealogy Assumptions Part II: The Sisters Theory
Last week I posted about nearly blending my third-great-uncle Henry Thoss' consecutive spouses into one person, based on an assumption about his household's 1940 census listing. In 1940, Henry was listed with wife Eleanor, 50, and mother-in-law Mary Dietrich, suggesting that Mary was Eleanor's mother, and Dietrich was her...
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Citing Genealogy Sources for Regular People
Source citation is something of a hot button in genealogy. It's easy to become petrified you won't do it right, or to imagine that citing sources will take up all your precious research time. That's why I love the idea of our Source Citations for Regular People webinar with Shannon...
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Six Classic Genealogy Brick Wall-Busting Tips
You probably have at least one unanswered genealogy question, an ancestor who's really difficult to trace, or a family with gaps in their timeline. These classic brick wall-busting tips come from our upcoming Conquer Your Research Challenges: Solutions and Advice to Overcome Your Genealogy Problems one-week workshop: Consult genealogy...
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14 Ways to Beat Genealogy Brick Walls Premium
Use these 14 strategies to build a case file on your hardest-to-find ancestors and crack those brick-wall mysteries.
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Tips for Hiring a Professional Genealogist Premium
Expert answers on hiring a professional genealogy researcher for record lookups.
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8 “Next Steps” For Starting Your Genealogy
This week, I had the pleasure of Skyping with a class of sixth graders working on a genealogy project. Here's a photo their teacher Tweeted: They'd already interviewed family members and done some research into census records, so after talking a little bit about how I got interested in...
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41 Ideas to Find Your Roots Premium
Reinvigorate your research and bust through roadblocks with these 41 ideas to find your roots in 2014.
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Now What?: Children Who Didn’t Survive Adulthood Premium
Q. How can I find information on children who didn’t survive to adulthood? A. The answer depends on when the children lived. For families between 1850 and 1940, the US census provides a snapshot of children’s names and ages. If you find a young child named in...
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5 Steps for Working with Other Genealogists
Use these genealogy tools, apps and strategies to collaborate with other researchers.
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