June 28, 2024 Genealogists love cemeteries. Reading headstones and imagining the lives of those who are buried there lures us to cemeteries – even ones without our ancestors buried there! Despite this fixation on cemeteries, many genealogists overlook some of the genealogical information to be found there. The names and dates on the headstones …
Difficulties in Finding Naturalization Records
June 21, 2024 For many genealogists, locating an ancestor’s naturalization records is a major goal. Those documents mark the beginning of a new life for an immigrant ancestor and changed not only his life but that of his descendants. Thanks to widespread digitization and indexing, naturalization records are easier to find now. Many of …
Family Legends
June 14, 2024 Family legends are a fun part of genealogy. Many a genealogist has heard a story about a great-great grandmother who was a Cherokee princess or the three brothers who immigrated from Ireland together. One of them left to go West and no one ever heard from him again. There are all sorts …