Beginner’s Guide: Document! Document! Document!

By Ericka Gizzard Do you know that real estate adage, “Location! Location! Location!”? It seems that everything in real estate rests on one point: location. In family history research, we should have an adage too: “Document! Document! Document!” Everything in your family tree really does come down to the documentation that you have to back…

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Combine Religious Records With Related Sources to Discover Family History

By Jeanne Rollberg Early religious records around the world are gold mines for genealogists as they seek key information that may not be found in civil records or newspaper resources (such as birth, marriage and death announcements) for certain time periods. People investigating religious records may find baptism, marriage, and death information in some denominations’ church…

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It’s a Grave Situation: Cemeteries, Genealogy, Paying it Forward, and You

By Jeanne Rollberg Do family historians have an opportunity to discover vibrant lives in cemeteries? Maybe so. American humorist and author Fannie Flagg’s new book, The Whole Town’s Talking, speaks to family researchers even though it is fiction. It’s a multi-generational story about a Scandinavian immigrant who emigrates to the Midwest, settles there, and helps…

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