(FindMyPast – June 5, 2016) At some point every genealogist encounters this discouraging reality. And if you haven’t heard yet, we might as well just tell you – The 1890 census is gone. Long gone. Almost all of the records were lost in a fire in 1921 – at the time they were being stored […]

(Genealogy In Time Magazine – June 12, 2016) To get the most out of any Google search for your ancestors, it is necessary to understand how Google works. An important consideration is to realize that Google runs different search engines in different parts of the world. For example, Google.com is the search engine for the […]

(Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Blog – May 24, 2016) From 1775 through 1991, over 41 million men and women served in the U.S. military during wartime. Of these, 651,031 died in battle, 308,800 died in theater, and 230,279 died while in service (non-theater). Any member of the U.S. Armed Forces who died while on […]