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Here’s where to find the millions of records that are offline and not available on Ancestry, Family Search, or any other digital clearinghouse. You literally have to go old school and try your hand at some next-level researching, that is to say, find out where the original repositories of genealogical […]

Find A Grave has a new and improved website, it’s what the users have been waiting for. Finally a new look from the dingy, cringy old interface to a fresh, modern styling. The front page has a slider-style scroll page which is clean and very visible where you can easily

Here’s 10 tips for researching city directories and street guides, as well as censuses, to absolutely nail it when it comes to finding where your ancestors lived and even find other relatives you never knew you had! It comes down to knowing how to utilize a Federal Census, City Directories,

Have you ever looked at a City Directory, seen an “r” or an “h” and just assumed it meant ‘rented’ or ‘home?’ Well they don’t! You are missing out on a great deal of genealogical information if you do not understand what lies beneath City Directory Abbreviations and their meanings.

There’s one simple trick you should do to customize your Ancestry homepage, and if you’re not doing it you’re wasting time. It’s a simple way to unlock the power of your Ancestry homepage in your favor and remove the clutter of unwanted blips and blobs overwhelming you every time you

In considering “Nature versus Nurture” and adoption, we find a GENEALOGY PARADOX. From the perspective of an adoptee I have found that NATURE outweighs NURTURE by some degree! The paradox comes in the fact that while our adoptive parents raise us, our biological ancestry does play a significant and inescapable

It’s a matter of trust! Should I make my Ancestry tree public or private? Below are 3 PERSPECTIVES that will help you decide how you control access to your family information. Ancestry’s tree settings are basically like a light switch: it’s either ON or OFF. Wouldn’t it be nice to

Find-A-Grave has become a very important tool for genealogists, especially since Ancestry has employed them as an official source. The Find-A-Grave community is full of robust, caring individuals who have taken the time and energy to honor their ancestors by creating memorial pages that are available for public genealogical research.

Did you know you might be overlooking hidden information in Ellis Island Ship Manifests? There’s more there than meets the eye if you take the time to snoop around. Here’s 6 ways you should train yourself to scan for each time you look at an Ellis Island Ship manifest; in

How do you find you ancestors on a ship manifest? Well, here’s a few tricks I’ve learned to successfully find a few of my own! Nothing is more satisfying than finding a name of an ancestor on a historical document, especially one that connects you to the ‘old world.’ Knowing