June 13, 2025 BMDs, short for births, marriages and deaths, are the building blocks of all genealogical research. They’re the skeleton upon which all other research rests. That’s why genealogists spend so much time looking for those all-important birth dates, marriage dates and death dates. As a new genealogist, I learned that civil registration records …
Finding Obits
June 6, 2025 As a volunteer researcher, I’ve received lots of requests for obituary look ups over the years. If the requester had a date of death, checking in the local papers for an obit was a simple matter. When I began my volunteering, most of the local historic newspapers were not digitized. They …
Kristiania
May 30, 2025 You never know what you’ll find when you do genealogy. Just this week I realized that I’ve never really known the name of the city where my paternal grandmother grew up and lived until she was twenty-seven. I thought I knew that it was Oslo, Norway. Turns out I was wrong. …