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Your Family History Tech Toolbox: Cutting-Edge Tools to Make Your Family History Research Easier, Faster, and More Fun is not just a long title; rather, it is an apt description for this eBook by Paul Larsen. The book is a Continue reading Your Family History Tech Toolbox
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 issues as special publications. The latest version of the series contains revised guides, plus additional states Continue reading NGS Research in the States Series: Indiana
Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors is the forth book in the Tracing Your [Irish] Ancestors series we have reviewed at this site. The series provides a wealth of information for searching Irish records county by county. Listed are the other three Continue reading Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors
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 issues as special publications. The latest version of the series contains revised guides, plus additional states Continue reading NGS Research in the States Series: Kentucky
Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors is the third book in the Tracing Your [Irish] Ancestors series we have reviewed at this site. The series provides a wealth of information for searching Irish records county by county. According to the author, “this Continue reading Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors
Family Archaeology: Discovering the Family Skeleton and Making it Dance is a combination genealogy primer and family history promotional. This book encourages the reader to discover, or rediscover, their people who make up one’s family tree. With encouragement, the book Continue reading Family Archaeology: Discovering the Family Skeleton and Making it Dance
You don’t need to be a “senior,” or even close, to make use of and enjoy Exploring Our Lives: A Writing Handbook for Senior Adults by Francis E. Kazemek. As the title suggests, this book is designed to help people Continue reading Exploring Our Lives: A Writing Handbook for Senior Adults
Galway county is Ireland’s second largest county. Galway covers 2,293 square miles; yet, a third of the population lives in Galway City alone. The city of Galway once served as the ancient trading port and home to the “14 Tribes” Continue reading Tracing Your Galway Ancestors
Religion, politics, and economics along with, in some cases, and healthy sense of discovery and exploration drove people to the New World. Those same factors drove people, from the earliest colonial days, to move ever westward. Standing between the early Continue reading An Atlas of Southern Trails to the Mississippi
Note – This volume is no longer available – As of March 17, 2016 8:50am PDT The very first settlers to land on the Emerald Island came ashore in what is present day Cork. Cork is Ireland’s largest county of Continue reading Tracing Your Cork Ancestors – OUT OF PRINT
In 1879, just three years after gaining statehood, Colorado experienced its own gold rush. That year, Thomas Corbett published a directory of Colorado’s know gold, silver, coal, and ore mines. Mine Owners and Mines of the Colorado Gold Rush, by Continue reading Mine Owners and Mines of the Colorado Gold Rush
Working with old photographs can be a painstaking ordeal. Whether its to identify the individuals or the place and time the photo was taken, investigating the truth may prove a challenge. Knowing more about the photographer may just lead to Continue reading Directory of Photographers in the United States 1888 & 1889 and Canada 1889
Resources, records, documents, hours of research and in the end it all comes down to names and dates. No matter what any of us ever learn about out own ancestors, genealogists start and end with names and dates. Those names Continue reading Nicknames: Past and Present, 5th Edition Expanded
Vital records, land records, legal documents, and many other genealogically critical resources are full of legal terminology. As laws and countries change, so does the verbiage in such records. The older the document the more difficult it may be to Continue reading Black’s Law Dictionary
Over a four year period, starting in 2000, Marian S. Henry wrote a series of essays about New York that were posted on the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) website (www.NewEnglandAncestors.org). These essays proved a great resource to genealogists. Continue reading New York Essays: Resources for Genealogists in New York State Outside New York City