There are many sources for finding an address. Census records from 1880 and later have house number and street name fields (though some enum...

Everyone has them in their tree - those relatives, such as the sibling of one of our ancestors, whose descendancy has died out at some point...

I could spend hours reading old, historical newspapers, which is funny because I don't tend to read current newspapers (between the inte...

I am by no mean a professional or even skilled writer. I do my best but mostly, what I write, including this blog, is for my own personal en...

We've all had them. That moment where you come across something big, something that now seems so obvious and yet, you were oblivious to ...

I am not the first one to write an article on this. But it's an important issue and therefore needs to be covered. One of the most persi...

It's very important in genealogy research to not make assumptions. Speculations and hunches can lead you in the right direction but as...

I thought I would share some of the things I've learn in my genealogy journey that might help others. To many, these may be well known f...

I first happened upon genealogy almost accidentally. It actually started when I was trying to create a tree of my current extended family be...