Why You Need to Quit Attaching Records to Your Family Tree, and What to Do Instead
The increasing availability of places to store family trees has many benefits, but it has also created a major problem for researchers – access to attached records.
Can’t Find Great-Great-Grandma? Pro Tips for Researching the Women in Your Tree
Women were just as important to a household and community hundreds of years ago as they are today but, thanks to laws and social ideas that limited women’s roles and rights, their contributions and names are often lost to history. To uncover your female ancestors’ lives, you’re going to have to work harder, dig deeper and be more creative.
The Dos and Don’ts for Preserving Old Family Photos at Home
For the family history researcher, finding a stash of old family photographs can be a true genealogy jackpot! And while our first inclination might be to hang them right up on the wall for everyone to see – this may not be the best idea. Here’s how you should handle them.
The Search Tricks You Need to Find Your Ancestors With Bing
As search engines go, Google is the undisputed king. But, while there’s much to be said about the benefits of turning to Google for genealogical research, family historians can also get great results from trying other search engines, like Bing. Here’s how to make the most of your efforts.
Why Getting to Know an Ancestor’s Location Can Be a Research Game Changer
As family history researchers we often get caught up exploring the people in our family tree and we forget to take into consideration the impact locations had on these people’s lives. But, often, location research can reveal as much or more about an ancestor as the vital records you’ve likely already collected.
Online Genealogy Records Can Disappear: Simple Ways to Protect Your Research
These days, millions of people have family trees online, with facts and sources gathered from the many online databases that are available. But, be aware, some of these sources could just disappear. No warning, just gone – because online record collections are not guaranteed to stay online, or publicly accessible, forever.
The 3 Free Scanning Apps That Helped Reveal Long Hidden Details in This Old Photo
Photo scanning apps do a surprisingly good job of preserving old photos and records on the go. See how these three free options helped us reveal long hidden details in an old family photo.
3 Signs You Should Scrap Your Family Tree and Start from Scratch
Often, when we first begin our research, we really don’t know what we’re doing and make a lot of mistakes. We forget to verify connections between generations, we don’t always add sources, we copy from other people’s trees… And then, somewhere down the line, we aren’t exactly sure what’s fact and what’s fiction anymore. Here are 3 signs it’s time to start over.
These Two Simple Tricks Will Help You Figure Out Cousin Relationships Without a Chart
Cousinship, or the relationship two cousins have to one another, is one of the most confusing concepts in genealogy and genetic genealogy. Today, we want to share with you some very simple tricks for calculating these relationships without the aid of a chart.
10 Things You Should Know About Every Ancestor in Your Tree
From basic vital statistics to your ancestors’ occupations – have you gathered these 10 important facts for every individual in your family tree?