Figuring out marriage customs can help you avoid making mistakes in your family tree.Have you noticed that people today are getting married many years later than they used to? Years from now, genealogists...
How to 'Attack' Your Ancestor's Small Town Vital Records
Everyone in your ancestor's small town may belong in your family tree.Small towns may hold more genealogy gems for you than big cities. Let's use my 2nd great grandmother's little town of Santa Paolina...
How Many of These 5 Gifts Does Genealogy Research Give You?
Do people have a hard time understanding your interest in genealogy? They don't realize all the gifts it gives you.We get into genealogy for different reasons and with different expectations. I met a...
3 Ways to Find Your Ancestors in a Huge Pile of Documents
You've downloaded thousands of vital records from your ancestor's birthplace. How do you find your people in all those files?My genealogy research changed dramatically in 2017. I decided to put my U.S.-based...
6 Easy Steps to Valuable Source Citations
Your family tree is not reliable without sources. Don't let creating sources intimidate you.When you started your genealogy research, were you noting the source of each and every fact? Or were you so...
Find Out What You're Missing on Those Immigration Records
Who and what are you overlooking on that ship manifest?On 10 February 1909 my great grandfather boarded the S.S. Cretic in Naples, bound for New York City. He came to America a handful of times, earned...
3 Housekeeping Tasks for a Professional-Quality Family Tree
No rubber gloves necessary. Family tree housekeeping uses no rags, cleansers or mops.I don't enjoy cleaning my house. The dog's gonna mess it up in no time anyway. But I will make time for family tree...
Do These 3 Things Before You Add Another Name to Your Family Tree
Put that person's facts down! You don't know where they came from.I'll never forget the time someone took my grandfather and added him to their family tree. They didn't care that my grandfather was born...
Trying to Solve a DNA Mystery with Logic
I'm mapping out a strategy to discover how my parents are distant cousins, as our DNA tells us.An analysis of my raw DNA on GEDmatch.com shows that my parents are "probably distantly related". Their Ancestry...
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