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Having Trouble Researching Your Female Ancestors? Here’s Some Help

By Alice Plouchard Stelzer The dictionary tells us that being invisible is being inconspicuous, unobtrusive, and unnoticeable. From a researcher’s point of view, tracing the life movements of invisible women creates many challenges. In the Preface to Notable American Women, editors Janet and Edward James said, “Biographies of women, especially little-known ones, pose special problems …

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Millions of Free Records on FamilySearch Can Not Be Found via Search: Here’s How to Access Them

It’s an often overlooked fact that a vast amount of FamilySearch’s collections can not be found via the search on their site. Millions of free family history records are waiting to be discovered but have not yet been indexed and are, therefore, somewhat hard to find. These records are invaluable tools for genealogists and cover a wide range …

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Family History Centers: Billions of Free Genealogy Records Are Closer Than You Think

Many genealogists have dreamed of making their way to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. With genealogy records on more than 3 billion individuals, this family history center hosts the largest collection of its kind found anywhere in the world. But what many don’t realize is that the family history records from this collection are also …

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Search Multiple Genealogy Sites at One Time With Our New Tool

We have created a new tool on Family History Daily, the Family History Search Engine. It’s a simple custom search box that allows you to look for your ancestors on a wide variety of different genealogy websites. We have added mostly free genealogy resources to our search–including large research websites and smaller regional archives and government records. To make the …

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The Search for Barent Ryder

Thank you to Bob Vornlocker for this guest post. I’ve previously written several articles about searching using wildcards and my comments have continued to ring true for me. I’ve added hundreds of new records since last published here using wildcard and proximity searches. I even convinced Mocavo, one of my favorite genealogy websites, to add …

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