Family History

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If you are new to doing your family genealogy, then you may want to read on. I have been doing my family research for many years now, and have developed a certain way of filling out the standard...

"Everyone has a story to tell," is a comment often made. If you, like others would like to see your story in print try one of the print demand companies to self publish your work. Self...

Immigrant passenger lists, also known as ship passenger arrival records or passengers lists, are full of information on your ancestors that came to the United States seeking a better life for...

Find A Grave is an easy to use tool for locating the burial places of family, friends, and even 'famous' people. With over 39 million names already online, it is an invaluable resource for...

If you have old home movies, they can be transferred to digital video disc (DVD). (Commercial movies, however, cannot be transferred or copied without the permission of the copyright owner.) If...

In the era of digital cameras and photos delivered on CDs, the question of saving old negatives is a common one. There are good cases for both saving negatives and for digitally archiving and then...

Knowing how to search your family tree can provide valuable information about your ancestors. Whether you just want to learn about "where you came from", determine ethic origin, identify...

Tracing the family history tree has become so popular that there are now many online resources available to the amateur family history researcher. Finding marriage records for immigrants is a...

Genetic genealogy. For people who are climbing their family trees, those two words are exciting. It's one thing to stumble upon a birth certificate or old military records, but to see genetic...

Posting your family tree on a free online genealogy website is a convenient way to share your family history with your known relatives and anyone else who is interested in your family. By having...

Finding a list of relatives who have died helps as a starting point for genealogical research, and it prods the memory of living relatives, often bringing forth stories and details that are...

Tracing family history through school records is an often overlooked source of information. School records can offer valuable insights into your ancestor's life. On school registers, teachers...

Your immigrant ancestors are waiting to be discovered in the many records that exist about migration to the United States. You may be able to determine where your ancestors came from, the time...

Building a family family tree is an engaging but time-consuming task. Gathering data for the tree is the most time-consuming part, but it also can be the most rewarding. Build a family tree to...

The best place to begin the search for Italian ancestors is the present. Professional genealogists recommend that you start with the known and work your way back to the unknown, from the present...

The US government, through the National Archives, has made millions of enlistment records from World War II available online. These are incredibly valuable for genealogical research, for filling...

Virtually every American fills out (or has someone else fill out) an application form for a Social Security number. It is possible to get a copy of the original application from the Social...

I believe my children will cherish. I am recording the Bible on a DVD. I am doing a straight reading with commentary on the parts that have special meaning to me. I am also including a family...

No cutesy-wootsey user names for me, no sir. I put my name out there for all the world to see. But just what kind of name is 'Sarokin'? What does it mean? For that matter, where does the name...

Find keeping a journal a not-so-easy task? Keeping a Journal by Topic can be both fun and more beneficial than traditional journal keeping.

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Why would anyone take a serious interest in photographing tombstones? Actually, there are several reasons people take pictures of gravestones. Genealogists do it to document the birth, death and...

It seems that almost everyone wants to know more about their family history but, very few actually follow through by tracing a well researched genealogy. Too often it is because they just don't...

If you are ready to research your family history, but do not know how to get started, here are some tips to get you on the road to finding your ancestors.

Here is a clever trick to apply Google's news timeline feature to searching for your own family name. Unless you have a very rare surname, you will probably have to sort through a lot of info that...

To do the very best family history research we should learn as much as possible about our hobby. Brigham Young University offers several free online genealogy courses that are open to anyone. You...

My sister and I have been working on our genealogy for many years. It is mind boggling all of the information you can accumulate about your forefathers. As much as we would love to travel to...

pipl is a person locating service generally thought of as a way to find living persons. But, I have also found it to be an excellent tool for locating information about my ancestors. pipl search...

If you have been looking for the cemetery that you ancestors were buried in, but it is located across the country or in another state, Findagrave.com is the perfect place to start looking. It...

With new discoveries in DNA and medical research, we are finding that we need a medical history to determine the potential for diseases such as heart failure, and genetic medical conditions like...

Writing about your family is important to bring them ‘alive’ to members of your current family and for generations to come. Writing about them in a ‘historical’ manner takes some patience, much...

People interested in learning more about their family history may want to consider using genetic testing as part of their genealogical research. Scraping some cheek cells into a test tube can...

A birth certificate serves as proof that an individual was born in the United States and is a natural born citizen. If you have had your birth certificate lost or stolen, the state or county vital...

The Social Security Death Index is an easy to access source for basic vital statistics for the millions of people whose deaths were reported to the U.S. Social Security Administration. Birth...

Researching family genealogy can be puzzling but with these steps it should make the job easier

Are you at a loss of where else to continue genealogy research? Is there a certain member of the family you can not find information on? You should leave no stone unturned when you are conducting...

Facebook is a great way to connect with friends and is a wonderful genealogy research tool. Finding family history on Facebook comes in many different forms including genealogy groups, posts on...

If you don't already have your family tree online, you should. If you do have your genealogy online, you should probably have it in on more sites. There are some very good reasons that you should...

Among its other firsts, the Civil War was probably the first administratively modern war, in terms of the records kept during the war, and archived afterwards. Most of these Civil War archives...

Genealogists label source records and information as primary or secondary, direct or indirect, original or derivative. Recognizing the different types of evidence is an important part of...

Proof of our findings is fundamental to good genealogy. Conclusions about an ancestor must have sufficient credibility to be accepted as proven. To help genealogists recognize and apply good...

Genealogy forums are great places to make connections with other researchers who might have bits of information about your ancestors. There are many genealogy related forums and message boards out...

I know that there are a lot of sites online that will sell you information on your family. I just happen to like finding this stuff for free. I have been able to research one line of my family...

Every family tree has some skeletons in the closet, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphor. From ordinary pickpockets, hustlers, and thieves, to grievous brutes and murderers, go back in your family...

"The Master Genealogist" from Wholly Genes Software is a tremendously capable genealogy database program right out of the box. But, if you are like most of us, you can always find a few...

If you're of French-Canadian ancestry, tracking your family history can be a fascinating challenge. Fortunately there are many good records and some are online. Here's how to get started...

There may well be a branch of your family tree that extends overseas to the British Isles, even if you don't know it. Going back only a few generations means there are hundreds of ancestors,...

Researching your family is called genealogy. It is finding the important personal facts of about these persons and putting it in a readable manner. The end result is called a family tree. You...

If you want to find your family for free then you need to do a free family search. Some sites will charge you for this service while some are free. The internet is full of free websites that...