May 17, 2024 Fleshing out names and dates on your family tree with more personal information can be difficult. It’s especially difficult if your ancestors left no letters, journals, or diaries. Finding information on the female side of your family is often nearly impossible since they left fewer documents. Social Histories can help fill in …
Online Family Trees – Help or Hindrance
May 3, 2024 Unlike many genealogists, I like online family trees. Whenever I start a new project, I begin by checking what’s available on the various family trees. I know that online trees are not always the most accurate source for genealogical information. However, they are the best place I know for quickly finding hints …
Maybe They Teleported: Finding Elusive Passenger Lists
April 26, 2024 Passenger lists are my favorite records. They document a momentous time in our ancestors’ lives – the day they set forth on a journey to a new life in America. Finding an ancestor’s name on a ship’s list verifies an event that changed our ancestor lives. It continues to impact our own …