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Maureen A. Taylor is know throughout the world as an expert on photo identification in the world. She is also an avid genealogist. Taylor uses her vast knowledge of photography in her research, and for years has been helping fellow Continue reading Family Photo Detective: Learn how to find Genealogy Clues in old photos and solve Family Photo Mysteries
German Genealogy Research Online – Tips And Links is now available in .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. Leland’s popular addendum to The German Researcher, is now available in electronic format. The electronic version costs less than the printed option; however, both Continue reading German Genealogy Research Online – Tips And Links (Available in PDF format)
In a day and age where selecting the perfect title for a book, a movie, or even a magazine article is often more a marketing question than a practical one, it is nice to find books whose titles declare exactly Continue reading True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars
I write approximately six book reviews a week for this site. The main goal of each review is provide sufficient information about a book to allow the reader to determine the book’s potential value to their own library. In other Continue reading Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
Over the past fifteen or so years, I have repeatedly heard or participated in many discussions, sometimes heated, over the best treatment and care for both older and newer photographs. The crux of the discussions often centering around digital photography Continue reading Windows on the Past: Identifying, Dating, & Preserving Photographs
William Dollarhide is a well-know author, census-records expert, avid genealogist and co-creator of a new series of guides called Genealogists’ Insta-Guides. Dollarhide is also well know for his “Genealogy Rules.” These are rules he has created to assist genealogists in Continue reading A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Dollarhide’s Rules & Daffern’s Laws
Just like the Map Guide to German Parish Registers: Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Rhineland III and Kingdom of Bavaria, Palatinate (Pfalz) covered in the last newsline, German Maps & Facts For Genealogy is highly popular map book. Thus, the publisher had Continue reading German Maps & Facts For Genealogy
Scandinavian-American Genealogical Resources is a straight-forward listing of resource pertinent to Americans and Europeans searching their Nordic ancestry. Resources are divided into five major Nordic groups, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish. Each group, of course, represents a home country. Continue reading Scandinavian-American Genealogical Resources
Beginning in 1987, the National Genealogical Society began publishing a series of state guides in the organization’s magazine, the Quarterly. These guides were later issued as special publications. The latest version of the series contains revised guides, plus additional states Continue reading NGS Research in the States Series: New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County
Family Roots Publishing’s Map Guide to German Parish Registers series are wildly popular. Of the 42 volumes now in print, Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Rhineland III and Kingdom of Bavaria, Palatinate (Pfalz) is the most popular of all. Freshly Continue reading Map Guide to German Parish Registers: Rhineland III and Palatinate (Pfalz); Volume XIII [Newly Reprinted]
Historically, Germans represent one of the largest immigrant groups in America. Germans and their descendents have played major rolls in the political and industrial history of this country. As America isn’t just considered but actually acts as a the great Continue reading German-Americana: A Bibliography
Every year at its annual banquet, a popular part of its annual convention, NGS awards individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to NGS programs or have performed outstanding work in the field of genealogy, history, biography, or heraldry. Continue reading Georgia Research – Winner of NGS’s Award for Excellence: Genealogical Methods and Sources
Another in a line of great reprints from the New England Historic Genealogical Society comes a Dictionary of American-Indian Place and Proper Names in New England, written by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow, in 1909, with an added foreword by David Allen Continue reading Dictionary of American-Indian Place and Proper Names in New England
Last week I commented on the fact there has been a recent rush in the genealogy publishing market to produce two to four page laminated guides. These guides have proven very popular as they typically provide a high density of Continue reading The Pocket Genealogist: Building A Genealogical Sketch
“County court records relating to roads and transportation are collectively know as “road orders.” The Virginia Transportation Research Council’s published volumes of road orders and related materials contain not only information on early roads, but also the names of inhabitants Continue reading A Brief History of Roads in Virginia 1607-1840