Fortify Your Family Tree

When we're new to building a family tree, many of us start entering details known to our closest relatives. Many of those names, dates, ...

The purpose of this blog has always been to help you be a better genealogist. That can mean: avoiding and fixing errors learning...

I've been building a robust family tree for my son's girlfriend since August. She lost her father in late July, and my son told her,...

It's funny when a family tree on Ancestry uses my cropped Italian birth record as a person's profile image. I didn't get that id...

It drives us crazy when someone takes parts of our tree and messes things up. Each time I go to Ancestry.com I see a list of the latest ...

Name 3 reasons why you're positive this man belongs in your family tree. I started this blog out of some frustration. Someone stole my ...

You may not trust someone else's family tree, but you can stand behind your facts. Right? Every now and then you're going to fin...

NOTE: There is a way to make your sources indisputable. Please see "Taming a Tangle of Source Citations." Your family tree is ...

The 1st good clue in my challenge: naturalization papers. What if a simple genealogy challenge could: Show you how good your genealog...

If you don't have at least 10 people in your family tree with the exact same name, you may be new to genealogy. Many cultures follow...

"Trust, but verify" is a translation of an old Russian proverb that reminds you to find the truth for yourself. It's particul...