Fortify Your Family Tree

When you find your ancestor's birth record, don't overlook the other gems in those vital records. Sometimes I dream I'm search...

When you find your relatives in a stranger's family tree, it means one of two things: You've discovered a new branch of your own...

I haven't visited my ancestral hometowns since 2018, and I'm really starting to miss them. I'd love to walk the streets again, l...

I've just finished the second of my most ambitious genealogy research projects. I created inventories of available vital records from m...

As I looked at my past article about how to use the Italian Ancestry website , one reader comment stood out. She wanted to know why on earth...

I recently made the comment that "I'm like the frozen concentrate of Benevento, Italy." In " Where Will Your Roots Map T...

I'm obsessed with my massive genealogy project. Connecting everyone from my ancestral hometowns is all I want to do! I've improved m...

My second grade teacher taught us to read by making us "sound it out." I remember my class sounding out a sentence in one voice. &...

Last week I told someone we can't expand her family tree. She knows a lot about the relatives born in the 1890s, but their mother will r...

Some people think seeing your DNA pie chart is a waste of time and money. When I saw my first DNA results in 2012 , I'll admit, I was ve...

I can never find obituaries for my ancestors. No marriage notices, no social events, nothing! Even so, when Newspapers.com had a membership...