Fortify Your Family Tree

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...

Update: Family Tree Analyzer is now available for Mac . There's a new version of Family Tree Analyzer —the must-have genealogy soft...

Mapping Out Your Genealogy Vacation My map collection for my grandfather's hometown. For days before my recent trip to Italy, ...

I've been in love with the aerial view in Google Maps for years. I've created different collections of map pins, like all known add...

You can have your own genealogy research library! I've been building my fortified family tree for 15 years. I started by writing down...

What if the you from several years ago could talk genealogy with the you of today? Do you think the two of you could help each other out? Y...

An interesting point came up in a Facebook genealogy group yesterday. The clerk who hand-wrote your ancestor's birth, marriage or death...

Americans are—in this order—German, Black, Irish, Mexican, English, Italian, Polish, French…. The list goes on and on. The 1901 and 1911 ...

ID photo from a Petition for Naturalization Last year my cousins' father passed away and I found his obituary. The man we called Doc ...

When I think of my first ancestor coming from a small rural town in Italy to the metropolis of New York City in 1890, I picture him being ov...

Have you ever subscribed to an online newspaper archive website? I've tried them twice, but I never found anything about my relatives. ...