Category Archives: Genealogy Techniques

Dana Huff’s Family History blog has an interesting category of posts called Research Questions. It is a collection of posts that asks questions, and invites answers, about the topics that puzzle her and her family about their ancestors. In “Johnson … Continue reading →

About.com’s Desktop Publishing section has a series of articles about using Desktop Publishing to publish your family history book, including examining software, building narratives, making charts, displaying and arranging photographs and other documents, and getting your family history book published. … Continue reading →

“Why are memorial inscriptions (MIs) important and what can they tell us that other records can’t?”, by 50Connect.co.uk, is an interesting look at parish registers and church records that can help you trace your family’s roots. For family historians, MIs … Continue reading →

Dana Huff writes about “Primary Sources Versus Secondary Sources” in an interesting educational post. If you have been researching your family history, you may have run into the classic pitfall. Primary sources can be expensive to obtain and difficult to … Continue reading →

When is the best time to preserve your family’s history? Now. A lovely example of why to protect your family’s history is found in the article, “Too much easily collectible family history is lost” from Payson Roundup: We had a … Continue reading →

I’ve started a series of articles on building a genealogy and family history blog on one of my other blogs, Lorelle on WordPress. In this series, I discuss how a genealogy blog differs from a normal blog and how to … Continue reading →

Genealogy Today has a review of several online US Federal Census resources including Census Online, Census Finder, Ancestry.com, and Genealogy.com. There are two types of online census sites, free and paid. First, let’s look at a couple of free sites: … Continue reading →

Genealogy Today has an interesting article on “Finding and Using Church Records” that had a few surprises in it for me. During the 1930s, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) planned an inventory of all U.S. church records. Because too many … Continue reading →

I’m still learning a lot about how to best research ancestors and family members and I was very intrigued by this detailed story of researching a mystery family member by Craig Manson of GeneaBlogie. Our task is to track a … Continue reading →