Imagine your grandchild inherits your family tree. How reliable will the information be for your generation?Marriage registers, yearbooks, newspaper clippings…these are official sources for your living...
This Genealogy Policy Takes the Guesswork Out of Names
My in-law policy is working so well, I've created a naming policy for my family tree.If your ancestor changed their name, are you recording both names?In my last article, I wrote about how freeing it...
How to Keep from Going Too Far with Your Family Tree
How do you know when to stop gathering documents and facts for the in-laws in your family tree?For certain types of distant relatives, I'm collecting the basic documents and stopping right there.I've...
4 Tips to Help You Find that Missing Ancestor
Here's how I'm finding the missing connections for my newly discovered ancestor.Recently I told you how I found a big error in my family tree. It was the result of hard-to-read documents and my not being...
One Report, Endless Possibilities for Improving Your Family Tree
Update: Family Tree Analyzer is now available for Mac.Family Tree AnalyzerIt's always fun to create an up-to-date GEDCOM from my family tree and get the latest insights from Family Tree Analyzer.I've...
How to Spot and Fix a Big Mistake in Your Family Tree
The further back you go in your family history, the more branches you have to explore. And if you have a lot of branches, you probably have a bunch that need more research work.At some point, your research...
How to Decide Who to Cut from Your Family Tree
It's Time to Give a Whole New Meaning to 'Trimming the Tree'In my newbie genealogy days it was a ton of fun to find people in the census. I'd trace a family through the years. I'd add names and facts...
5 Clean-up Tasks to Improve Your Family Tree
Stop! Don't add another person to your family tree until you read this.How you ever looked at facts in your tree and not known where they came from?Have you seen hints that made no sense for your person...
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