Fortify Your Family Tree

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...

Long-time reader of this blog, Suzanne, found two books that mention my great uncle. She had no luck on Newspapers.com, but she found him wh...

My earliest family tree breakthroughs came from municipal websites. I was impressed, 15 years ago, by how many small towns in Italy had an i...

Someone asked me why our ancestors left Italy when it's so beautiful there. I knew the answer, but I remember when I thought the exact s...

If a lot of townspeople died at the same time, something big happened. When we research our relatives from centuries past, we find lots ...

Search the news for a slice of history to round out your ancestor's story. Newspapers haven't been very helpful to me in my fami...

You've got the raw materials. Shape them into a remembrance of your ancestor. Have you ever thought of writing about your family his...

Do people have a hard time understanding your interest in genealogy? They don't realize all the gifts it gives you. We get into gene...

I've tried using subscription newspaper websites for my family tree research. I never get anywhere. My ancestors were not in the soc...

The history of Italy is one of conquest, invasions, and turmoil. If you identify as all-Italian (although you were born somewhere else) exp...

My ancestors came to America to escape poverty and earn money for their families. There was no work for young men in their hometowns. Wh...