By Jamie Drake If you are reading this I am sure you have probably read a few articles about genealogy and genetic inheritance, so I’m not going to to bore you with the same speech about how that works. Instead, I want to present a context for you to consider when looking at your ethnicity…
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By Ericka Guzzard As family historians, I think we could all agree that we are always on the hunt for family photos. We beg family members for originals and copies alike, peer at film negatives, and look through albums time and time again searching for a clue that will send us off on a renewed…
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By Marge Bitetti Have you ever thought about writing your life story? How about writing the story of one of your relatives? You don’t need to be Danielle Steel, Nicholas Sparks or James Patterson to write about your life story. You are the only person who can tell your story. Don’t worry about not having…
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By Rachel Silverman One of the major challenges in Jewish genealogy is figuring out our immigrant families’ precise town(s) of origin in the “old country.” There are a great many roadblocks on the path to discovering this key information, not the least of which is the constantly changing political borders in Eastern Europe, leading up to the…
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By Marge Bitetti Old photos have a hidden story to tell. When you learn to look for tips you can become a detective in solving the hidden story that a photo tells you. Is the photo in question black/white or color? This is perhaps the most noticeable clue to revealing when the photo was taken.…
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By Jayne McGarvey If you are serious about making sure your family history is accurate then it is important to understand how to resolve conflicting evidence. Recognise That a Conflict Exists As you progress your family history research, you are likely to meet many different types of conflicting information. This could be as obvious as…
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By: Sharon Hall A DNA Eureka! Moment This story began with a request to correct a spelling error in an article I’d written about a 1913 coal mine explosion in Dawson, New Mexico. To Doug Simpleman the error was especially important to see corrected. The misspelled name belonged to his great grandfather Roy Simpleman. …
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By Anne Sherman Recording family history research is probably the one area that many beginners think little about. They may add a tree online with companies such as Ancestry etc., but there is so much more you can do to keep your research organised. Online Trees These all have their place in your research and…
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By Jayne McGarvey My Maternal Grandmother’s sisters both had families. Over the decades those families have grown. I have many second cousins, some of whom I occasionally met, usually en masse as a child, their names and faces often merging into one another, as months or even years would pass between meetings. My cousins have…
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By Roccie Hill When we begin researching our family history, we often go to great lengths to steer clear of land records. We return time and again to censuses, vital records, and other people’s family trees, and find ourselves knocking against brick walls sometimes for years before we look to land records. My advice is…
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