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If you are considering attending the upcoming National Genealogical Society Conference, to be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 13 through 16, you’d best be making your reservation. Registration fees for NGS Society members jumps from $195 to $230 Continue reading The NGS Conference Registration Deadline is Fast Approaching
Every now and then genealogists need to order documents from the National Archives. To make your order or to download necessary forms, just go to the Ready to Order? Have a Comment? page at the National Archives and Records Administration Continue reading Get Your NARA Forms Here
Dee Gibson writes an excellent column on using estate records for genealogy. The column was printed in the March 2, 2009 edition of Ashville’s Citizen Times. The following teaser is meant to encourage my readers to go read the entire Continue reading Wills & Probates Can Fill in the Family Tree
Sharon Tate Moody writes a great column this week on how to find information on our relatives that ended up in mental institutions. This type of research is often a challenge, for the state hospitals will seldom divulge patient information, Continue reading Finding Your Relatives Who Were in Mental Institutions
Tammy Tipler-Priolo writes a very good column on your ancestors’ religion this week, and points out that they often did not consistently stay with the same denomination from generation to generation. Check out her column in the January 19, 2009 Continue reading Religious Beliefs From Generation to Generation
Carllene Marek wrote an excellent “Relatively Speaking” article this week, published in Food For Thought: a News Cafe. She gives some good tips on “applying certain rules and techniques along with persistence, and a dash of creativity.” The column is Continue reading How to Best Use Surname Indexes
Mark Tucker (Think Genealogy) does a presentation titled “Navigating Research with the Genealogical Proof Standard.” He has posted the slides (all 84 of them!) online, using Slideshare. Presented and recommended in that lecture are three excellent research forms that Mark Continue reading New Research Aids Available – Free Online
My friend, Randy Seaver, noted this morning that Lorine McGinnis Schulze has started a new blog, titled “Ask Olive Tree,” where she answers genealogical questions. The questions and answers are posted on the blog where they can not only help Continue reading Ask Olive Tree
Over 20 years ago I was searching for information dealing with my great uncle, Henry E. Canfield, and his wife, Emma Larimore. I began by obtaining the death certificates for both Henry and Emma. Henry died first, leaving Emma to Continue reading Why Check EVERY Source?