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This is the third in a series of articles to help you understand Italian vital records without speaking Italian . If you missed the other tw...

You're closing in on an ancestor's birth record that you've wanted forever. You didn't find it in a search result. No. You f...

I spent the last 2 weekends building a family tree for a woman who was stuck at the 1st great grandparent level. I identified the names of...

I spent the weekend with the type of genealogy records I hate: Latin church records. Normally I'm knee-deep in Italian vital records. It...

I got an email from Geni.com where, unfortunately, I uploaded my family tree years ago. I say "unfortunately" because I didn't...

Last time, I told you how I'm building, using, and sharing a database of my ancestral hometowns . On Wednesday, I used it to follow an...

We've all met them. The guy who spent an hour on Geni.com and claimed to be a descendant of Eric the Red. The woman who clicked into one...

I like to work from text-file task lists . I started doing this in my corporate job so I can easily re-prioritize my to-do list. If a task h...

Don't stop your research too soon if the documents aren't crystal clear. My last article convinced me to make a pair of 5th grea...

The Ellis Island website was my gateway to genealogy. In my early days, I found ship manifests for my 2 grandfathers and other relatives. T...