Fortify Your Family Tree

Two weeks ago I wrote about " 5 Ways to Find Loose Ends in Your Family Tree ." Since then I've been having fun doing just that...

On Friday I finished an ambitious family tree project I started in January. I've been working at it nearly every day, and it was worth i...

I'm so close to finishing the source citation clean-up project I started in January. It's been massive. My tree has more than 57,00...

Last week I had to swear off synchronizing my Family Tree Maker file with my tree on Ancestry. (See " A Major Family Tree Change to Fix...

Once in a while I spot them in the details of my family tree. Those questionable, unreliable sources. When we're new to genealogy, we&...

We all know the classic first rule of starting your family tree. "Start with yourself." Think back to your earliest genealogy res...

Revisiting a clean-up project instantly added dozens of relatives to my family tree. In July I recommended using Family Tree Analyzer to ...

Act now to preserve your genealogy treasures and leave instructions. It happened again. While seeking a source for facts in my family t...

Wouldn't it be great to have a safety net to catch all your forgotten source citations? At times we all overlook adding sources to t...

Prove to everyone that you've done your genealogy homework. My husband gave me Family Tree Maker software and an Ancestry subscripti...