by Jayne McGarvey, Professional Genealogist with Genealogists.com Regardless of whether you use a subscription service like Ancestry or Find My Past or a free service such as Family Search, it is tempting to pop their forename and surname into the little boxes and press Return, and then when you get a return of several thousand…
Written by Anne Sherman, Genealogists.com Genealogist The following eight tips will help ensure you get started correctly on the path of finding your ancestors. 1. Always start with yourself. Early on in my professional genealogy career I was contacted by a client who had already started on his research but wanted my help to go…
Birth certificates show they were born. Death certificates show they died. It’s the details in between that show how they really lived! Sometimes in the rush to explore the details of our ancestors and in particular their origins we forget the importance of just how much information can be gleaned from the original records pertaining…
