Genealogy News

How to Trace Your U.S. Military Ancestors

(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genelaogy Weekly Column 5-19-2015) Nearly every generation of Americans has known war. From the early colonists, to the men and women currently serving in America&#…

Guessing a Name Variation

(from FamilySearch Wiki 5-8-2015) Where to Start Guessing a Name Variation? Twenty ways to find an elusive name including using competing indexes, initials, abbreviations, middle names, nicknames, IGI…

Google Power Search: How to Search Just One Web Site

(from Dick Eastman · May 5, 2015) There’s a lot more you can do with Google than just search the Internet. Instead of searching the entire Internet, you may be more interested in seeing search resu…

A Picture . . . and a Thousand Words!

(from Genealogy Gems Monthly Column by Allen County Public Library – 4-30-2015) by Curt B. Witcher, Genelaogy Dept. *************************************** For more than a century, the concept o…

Who Was Your Ancestor? Take Off the Name Tag!

(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Column 4-28-2015) What makes family history research fun (at least in my opinion) is not really learning our ancestors’ names. It is learning…

Using Historical Maps to Learn About Your Ancestors

(From Kimberly Powell’s Weekly About Genealogy Blog 4-21-2015) Many family history research problems can be solved with the use of maps, atlases, and gazetteers. Historical maps can help you fin…

Can I Legally Use Online Photos in my Family History?

(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Column 4-16-2015) Genealogists love images—photos of their ancestors, historical maps, digitized documents, historic photos of places and events&…

Downsizing and Going Paperless

(from Dick Eastman’s daily newsletter – March 31, 2015) Dick Eastman Warning: This article contains personal opinions. I have written a number of times about the advantages of a paperless …

Back to Basics

(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Column 3-24-2015) It’s somehow been 15 years since I started writing for About.com! I thought I would celebrate this momentous milestone by g…

Who Owns Your Genealogy Data?

(from Dick Eastman’s Daily Newsletter – March 20, 2015) Overheard at a genealogy conference recently (repeated from memory so the wording might not be exact): Person #1: “I won’t put m…

Invisible Female Ancestors

(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Column on March 3, 2015) The individual identities of women who lived prior to the twentieth century are often very tangled in those of their husba…

DAR Provides Contributed Supporting Documentation Online for Genealogy Researchers

(from Dick Eastman’s Online Newsletter · February 22, 2015) The following announcement was written by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: The National Society Daug…

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