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The following article was written by my good friend, William Dollarhide. Enjoy… Dollarhide’s Genealogy Rule No. 26: When in a courthouse miles from home, you will always find the breakthrough court record at 4:55pm on Friday afternoon. This is my Continue reading Getting Started in Deed Research
Digital Images: Scanning, Editing, and Preserving Your Photos is just one webinar presented by Legacy’s own Geoff Rasmussen. With this video, the viewer can watch again and again, repeating the entire seminar or just those parts for which they need Continue reading Digital Images: Scanning, Editing, and Preserving Your Photos
The following news release was received from Thomas MacEntee: January 16, 2013 – AUSTIN, TX. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announces the creation of a new society to promote the preservation of records in the National Archives and Records Continue reading The Federation of Genealogical Societies forms the Society of Preservation Patriots
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 is considered the great melting pot, and with so many Continue reading German-Americana: A Bibliography
Those born at the outbreak of World War I are now nearly 100 years old. There are only a handful of people left in the world who would have been old enough to have a solid recollection of the time. Continue reading The Great War: A Guide To The Service Records Of All The World’s Fighting Men And Volunteers
Moorshead Magazines is the publisher of Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, and Discovering Family History. Every so often the company collects the best articles on a particular subject from each of the three magazines and combines them into a special edition. Continue reading Tracing Your English & Scottish Ancestors
This is Selma showing off her nearly full 5 Generation Primary Families Chart…….. way to go, Selma! She now thinks she might ought to take up a new and different hobby; what advice would you give her?? Can we Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour……………. Week’s Peek
A group of folks from NPR went over to the Supreme Court to retrieve a suitcase a while back. The suitcase belonged to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and in it was her family history in photographs. They spent time Continue reading Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Family HIstory in Pictures
What could possibly cause vandals to attempt to destroy over 80% of the headstones in the Springhill Ceemetery in Wellsville, Ohio? Is there something about our culture (or lack thereof) that’s making our young people do destructive things like this Continue reading Over 200 Headstones Destroyed by Vandals in Columbiana County, Ohio
I spent some time today with what’s got to be the simplest “useful” blogging platform ever built. All you have to do is go to the Throwww.com website, type in a title, and start writing. You don’t even have to Continue reading Throwww.com – The simplest of useful blogging platforms
The following information is from Julie Hill at Archives.com: With the holidays behind us, it’s time to dig into finding more ancestors and Archives.com is here to help. We recently added more than 58 million United States vital records. These Continue reading Archives.com Expands U.S. Vital Records Collections by 58 Million
The following article was written by my good friend, William Dollarhide. Enjoy… Dollarhide’s Genealogy Rule No. 16: A good genealogical event is learning that your parents were really married. The discovery and collection of recorded events from a person’s life Continue reading Tracking Genealogical Events
“Locating the names of our female ancestors can be difficult – principally because their names changed upon marrying. Women historically have not produced as many records as their husbands, since women’s suffrage largely did not exist until the twentieth century. Continue reading Chasing Women: Finding Your Female Ancestors
So many of the books we come across focus on tracing one’s ancestry to Europe. And why not? For hundreds of years Europeans represented the majority of immigrants into North America. Ellis Island alone saw 12 million enter this country Continue reading Mexican-American Genealogical Research
The start of the new year gives me a chance to sit back and reflect on all the books, magazines, and CDs (including eBooks and captured webinars) I have reviewed over the past year. Covering anywhere from four to eight Continue reading Looking Back – Full Steam Ahead