Want to learn more about a specific genealogy topic? Let these links help you. Articles are listed from oldest to newest within each category. Last updated (after a ridiculously long time) on 25 Jan 2024.
Antenati website (Italian genealogical records)
- Where Have You Been All My Life?
- Collect the Whole Set
- How to Use the Online Italian Genealogy Archives
- Why I Recorded More Than 30,000 Documents
- Step-by-Step Discovery of My 5th Great Grandparents
- Finding the Siblings Your Ancestor Never Mentioned
- Becoming Italian Was a Long, Hard Journey
- How to Make the Best of the New Antenati Website
DNA
- Why Did They Come To America?
- Making Sense of Your DNA Results
- Before Grandpa Came Here, How Did He Get There?
- Delving Deep into Your Genealogy with DNA
- When DNA Says You're Related, You Determine How
- Free DNA Analysis Finds Kissing Cousins
- Bringing in Your Genealogy Harvest
- Collaborating with Your DNA Matches
- Trying to Solve a DNA Mystery with Logic
- The Leeds Method May Have Solved a Big Family Puzzle
- My Genealogy Jigsaw Puzzle: DNA Matches and Vital Records
- Gearing Up for All Your New DNA Matches
- Don't Give Up When Your DNA Match Has a Puny Little Family Tree
- How to Find Your Strongest DNA Matches
- Use Cousin Baiting to Expand Your Family Tree
- Don't Rely on Your DNA Match to Do the Work
- Use Every Tool to Solve a Family History Mystery
- 2 Reasons to Add Unrelated People to Your Family Tree
- The DNA Problem We Aren't Talking About
- Untangling Our Twisted Family Relationships
- This DNA Reference Site Solved a Mystery
- Help Your DNA Match Expand their Family Tree
- 3 Steps to Identifying Certain DNA Matches
- Let a DNA Match Guide Your Research for a While
- How to Figure Out a DNA Match
- Is This the End of DNA Matches?
- Can't Connect to Your DNA Match? Keep Trying
- Using Ancestry's ThruLines to Find DNA Matches
- Combine DNA Tools to Calculate Unknown Relationships
- Attracting a New DNA Match
- How to Diagram a Mystery DNA Match
- Are Your Dead Ends Hiding DNA Matches?
- How to Add Context to DNA Matches
- How to Sharpen Your DNA Detective Skills
- How to Use the Power of Shared DNA Matches
- 3 Steps to Solving DNA Matches
- Harvesting Clues from Your DNA Matches
- Your DNA Matches Hold Hidden Clues
- How to Crunch Your DNA Numbers
- How to Find Value in Your Distant DNA Matches
- What Do You Think You Are?
- Why DNA Matches Appear Closer Than They Are
- How DNA Can Help Find Your Ancestral Hometown
- 3 Key Steps to Identify a DNA Match
- Why Care About Your DNA Matches?
- This Spreadsheet Sorts DNA Matches By Branch
- Use Color-Coding to Solve Mystery DNA Matches
- Using Shared Matches and Genealogy to Solve a Mystery
- These DNA Sites Expand Your Tree in New Directions
- Inspiration Leads to a Family Tree Growth Spurt
- Do Your DNA Ethnicity Results Make No Sense?
- What Good Are Distant DNA Matches?
- Genealogy Skills Make You a Keen Detective
- Digging Into a DNA Match's Family Tree
- Brick Walls May Have Roots in Another Town
- How to Use DNA Matches to Go Beyond Vital Records
- 4 Best Ways to Learn from Your DNA Matches
DNA Painter quickly showed me 2 very important matches. |
Family Tree Analyzer
- Why You Should Be Using the Free Family Tree Analyzer
- Run This Genealogy Report to Help Clean Up Your Dates
- How to Find Errors in Your Family Tree
- How to Handle the Unrelated People in Your Family Tree
- Use This Tool to Discover Family Tree Insights
- This Genealogy Report Shows You What's Missing
- One Report, Endless Possibilities for Improving Your Family Tree
- It's Time to Make Your Family Tree Clear and Consistent
- Did I Find a Scandal in My Family Tree?
- Let Family Tree Analyzer Find Your Duplicates Duplicates
- How to Work Out Errors in Your Family Tree
- Catch and Fix Your Missing Source Citations
- Here's Your Family Tree Progress Report
- How to Plug the Holes in Your Family Tree
- 4 Problems You Can Fix with Family Tree Analyzer
- How to Find the True Cousins in Your Family Tree
- Take These Steps to Be Ready for the 1950 Census
- Pluck the Stragglers Out of Your Family Tree
- Report Finds Marriage Mishaps in Your Family Tree
- Finding and Fixing an Awkward Typo in Your Family Tree
Foreign-Language Help
- What Language Barrier?
- Tips and Tools to Help You Translate Foreign Genealogy Records
- How to Read Names on Badly Written Vital Records
- You Can Read Foreign-Language Genealogy Records
- The Single Best Technique for Reading Old Genealogy Records: Immersion
- Step Out of Your Genealogy Comfort Zone
- 5 Steps to Take When Your Ancestor's Name is Unreadable
- How to Use a Foreign-Language Book for Family Tree Research
Immigration Records
- Where Did They Go Next?
- 6 Key Genealogy Facts on a Ship Manifest
- Searching for the Missing Link in Your Family Tree
- Celebrating My Peasant Ancestors
- Imagining the Journey of Our First Immigrant Ancestors
- Grandpa's Journeys Shed Light On My Own
- Who Was Your First Immigrant Ancestor?
- Find Out What You're Missing on Those Immigration Records
- How Did Immigration Laws Guide Your Ancestors?
- Great Grandpa Was a Bird of Passage
- Step Out of Your Genealogy Comfort Zone
- Finding Relatives Who Sailed to South America
- Why Did Your Ancestor Leave Home?
- 5 Ellis Island Videos Dispel Immigration Myths
- Overlooked Website Finds Immigrant Ancestors
Analyzing ship manifests uncovers so many facts. |
Maps and Hometowns
- What if There's No There There?
- Case Study on 'What if There's No There There?'
- Mapping Your Ancestors Can Answer Questions
- How to Visit Your Ancestral Hometown at Your Desk
- Free Resource Lets You Plot Family Tree Locations
- Finding Ancestral Homelands That Are No Longer There
- When You Can't Find Your Ancestor on a Map
- Create a Digital Map of Your Family History
- Walking in Your Ancestors' Footsteps
- Finding Relatives in Your Ancestral Hometown's Cemetery
- Lessons Learned from My 3 Trips to the Old Country
- Paying it Forward with Genealogy
- 4 Key Places to Discover Your Ancestor's Hometown
- Which Global Map is Best for Genealogists?
- 4 Types of Family Tree Errors Only You Can Find
- 6 Places to Discover Your Ancestor's Town of Birth
- How Far Did Your Ancestors Commute to Work?
- How to Inject New Life into Your Genealogy Research
- Why Our Ancestors Marched Hours-Old Babies into Town
- 6 Ways to Find Your Ancestor's Hometown
- Your Ancestor's Location is Critically Important
- Prepare to Walk Along Your Ancestors' Streets
- Where Will Your Roots Map Take You?
- Pinpoint Important Places in Your Family Tree
- Make an Easy Ancestral Map for the Cousins
- 7 Free Genealogy Map Projects
- How to Decide Where to Put Your Research Effort
- Don't Believe Everything Your Ancestors Told You
- Prepare to Walk Along Your Ancestors' Streets
- Discover Your Ancestral Hometown's History
- How DNA Can Help Find Your Ancestral Hometown
- Look Past the Misspellings to Find Your Ancestors
- Inspiration Leads to a Family Tree Growth Spurt
- Discovering Life and Death Trends in Your Ancestral Hometown
- How Can You Build Your Family Tree? We're Talking Practice!
- Tour Your Ancestral Hometowns with YouTube
- 3 Key Signs a Family Tree is Wrong
Military Records
- POW: My Grandfather's World War I Experience
- Why You Need Your Ancestors Draft Registration Cards
- Does Independence Day Make You Think of Your Ancestors?
- Appreciate the Veterans in Your Family Tree
- Was Your Ancestor in the Military? It May Not Matter
- Taking a Do-It-Yourself Genealogy Vacation, Part 1
- Using Documents to Imagine Your Ancestor's Job
- Finding Your Family's Fallen War Heroes
- Finding Fallen Soldiers in Your Family Tree
- An Unusual Find Triggers Historical Research
- Free Italian Military Records for WWI and WWII
- Why and How to Harvest Draft Card Facts
The upside to forced draft registration: Genealogy data! |
Organization
- Find Your Happy Place in Your Favorite Genealogy Tasks
- 4 Ways to Protect Your Genealogy Research from Disaster
- What to Do When You Can't Solve the Mystery
- Prepare Your Family Tree for Your Computer's Demise
- Moving Your Family Tree to a New Computer
- A Resolution You'll Want to Keep
- 4 Ways to Decide Where to Spend Your Family Tree Research Time
- 3 Top Safety Tips for Your Family Tree Data
- How to Tame Your Jumble of Genealogy Leads
- How to Back Up Your Family Tree Files Automatically
- 4 Keys to Make You a Better Genealogist
- It's Time to Tame Your Family Photos
- Make Consistency King in Your Family Tree
- It's Time to Review Old Genealogy Messages
- Keep Track of Your Genealogy Theories and Tasks
- A Safety Net for Reckless Family Tree Building
- Revisit Your Genealogy Journal Often
- Make Your Genealogy Documents Speak Volumes
- 4 Cornerstones of Genealogy Research
- Quick and Easy Family Tree Backup Routine
This extra step pays big dividends. |
Projects for Genealogy Fans
- How Far Did Your Ancestors Commute to Work?
- The Genealogy Project You Bring Home from Vacation
- 7 Genealogy Projects We All Need to Do
- 3 Ways to Find Double Ancestors in Your Family Tree
- Consistency Makes Your Family Tree More Professional
- 2 Ways to Find the Loose Ends in Your Family Tree
- 3 Reasons To Do Your Own One-Name Study
- How to Inject New Life into Your Genealogy Research
- This Genealogy Project Has 2 Hidden Benefits
- How to Use Your Personal Genealogy Database
- How a Research Timeline Helps You Spot Gaps and Problems
- Work in Sprints to Strengthen Your Family Tree
- 5 Ways to Get Your Family to Talk Genealogy
- 6 Genealogy Projects Perfect for Your Holiday Vacation
- Which of Your Ancestors Has the Best Life Story?
- Make Your Own 'Elder Scrolls'
- How Many Genealogy Gems Are You Sitting On?
- Combine these Genealogy Projects for a Richer Family Tree
- Six Degrees of Separation, Family Tree Edition
- 5 Ways to Share Your Tree with Family
- Recipe for a Father's Day Genealogy Project
- Genealogy Projects: A Much Needed Distraction
- How to Create and Share Your Ancestral Town Database
- These Genealogy Projects Can Chase Away the Boredom
- Genealogy Challenge Accepted!
- Fallen Soldier Memorials Inspire a Research Project
- You, Too, Can Develop a Genealogy Super Power
- 4 Steps to Writing Your Own Life Story
- How to Find Distant Cousins on Facebook
- Add Context to Your Family Tree With Historic Photos
- It's Time to Organize All Your Family Photos
- Free and Easy-to-Use 4-Generation Family Tree Chart
- This New Template Charts 5 Generations
- Build a Rock-Solid Family Tree Foundation
- How to Make Your Own Genealogy Correspondence Database
- 7 Days to a Better Family Tree
- How to Master the Unrelated People in Your Family Tree
- How to Find What's Missing from Your Family Tree
- Another Way to Find Errors in Your Family Tree
- Share Your Family History in a Fun New Way
- Lessons Learned from My One Place Study
- How to Crunch the Numbers on Your Family's Names
- Make November Genealogy Loose Ends Month
- Loose Ends Month: Week 1 Successes
- How to Improve Your Digital Genealogy Documents
- Exploring Your Last Name Concentration
- Pinpoint Important Places in Your Family Tree
- Make an Easy Ancestral Map for the Cousins
- Top 5 Favorite Genealogy Projects
- 7 Free Genealogy Map Projects
Resources
- 7 Free Resources for Frugal But Fanatical Genealogist
- Free Resource Provides Graphic Genealogy Research Basics
- Where to Find Free Historical City Directories and Newspapers
- How to Use the Free Online Irish Census
- How to Build Your Social Genealogy Network
- Finding New Cousins on Facebook
- My Family Isn't In the Newspapers
- Which Genealogy Apps Are Right for You?
- Try This Tool to Find a Missing Census
- There Are No Ready-made Family Trees
- Free Newspaper Site for Your Family Research
- Comparing Family Tree Programs Is an Eye Opener
- How to Use Directories to Find a Missing Census
- Here's Your Family Tree Progress Report
- Imagine a Register of Your Entire Ancestral Hometown
- Spinning a Hint into Genealogy Gold
- Keep These Genealogy Resources Always Within Reach
- How to Make the Best of the New Antenati Website
- 20 Genealogy Tools I Can't Live Without
Vital Records
- How to Read an Italian Birth Record
- How to Read an Italian Death Record
- How to Read Italian Marriage Records
- How To Read a Free-form Italian Death Record
- What to Do When You Have No Birth or Death Record
- How to Find State-Specific Death Indexes and Records
- What's Napoleon Got To Do With Italy?
- 27 Key Facts to Extract From a Death Certificate
- The Italian Genealogy Goldmine: "Wedding Packets"
- What If Your Ancestor Isn't Where You Expected at All?
- How to Create Your Ancestral Hometown Database
- Family Mystery Solved! Two Lost Boys Found
- How I Tracked Down My 4th Great Grandmother's Parents
- How to Find Your Pre-Civil Records Ancestors
- How to Find the Most Important Genealogy Documents Quickly
- How to 'Attack' Your Ancestor's Small Town Vital Records
- How Much Can Your Learn from Your Relative's Obituary?
- This Memento Provides Key Facts for Your Family Tree
- How to Benefit from a Cousin's Bad Family Tree
- Why All Siblings Are Critical to Your Family Tree
- How to Use Your Personal Genealogy Database
- Following the Documents from Marriage to Marriage
- Use What You Know to Break Down a Brick Wall
- Why My Family Tree is Exploding in Size
- Tackling Several Genealogy Projects on the Fly
- Solve Genealogy Mysteries Step-by-Step
- Create an Ancestor Profile from Vital Records
- Family Tree Research Takes Time to Bear Fruit
- Laying the Foundation for a Solid Family Tree
- Without Vital Records, What Can You Do?
- How to Overcome a Town Clerk's Errors
- Genealogy Obsession Pays an Unexpected Dividend
- Discovering Life and Death Trends in Your Ancestral Hometown
- The Method to My Genealogy Madness
- Why Your Half 4th Cousin Once Removed Matters
This is a great list of resources for people to learn.
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