Fortify Your Family Tree

When my son's fiancé lost her father in 2021, I offered to research her family tree. It's become something of a tradition for me. I...

I'll bet we all do it. We save notes or bookmarks to remind us of a genealogy find we need to explore. And then we forget all about it. ...

Some family history myths never seem to die. Perhaps the biggest one is "my ancestor's name was changed at Ellis Island." Desp...

Q: What's a top reason why people mistakenly put OUR relatives in THEIR family trees? A: They're not looking at a map. The fir...

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...

The quest for the holy grail: your ancestor's place of birth. You can't go back beyond your immigrant ancestor until you know where...

Sometimes a rabbit hole is well worth the tumble. I let a mistake guide my research this past Sunday. I must have been enjoying myself b...

There are online tools to help you identify family members who went to Argentina and Brazil. Recently we looked at Brazilian documents with...

Everyone who dabbles in family tree building has hit one or more brick walls. After thinking about my own dead ends, I realized brick wa...

When you think a new document belongs in your tree, here's what you can do. This week I was looking at the family tree of a DNA matc...