Fortify Your Family Tree

How much can you ever know about your peasant ancestors? I spend all my time reading 19th-century vital records from a handful of rural Ital...

Long-time reader of this blog, Suzanne, found two books that mention my great uncle. She had no luck on Newspapers.com, but she found him wh...

The end of the year is a perfect time to give your family tree a thorough check for errors. How many times during the past year did you: ...

Our genealogy research evolves over time. And we change our methods as we expand our family tree. I've gotten to a point where there are...

When I'm adding people and facts to my family tree, I can feel my mind racing. I'm running through a decision tree to decide the nex...

My earliest family tree breakthroughs came from municipal websites. I was impressed, 15 years ago, by how many small towns in Italy had an i...