Fortify Your Family Tree

Some family history myths never seem to die. Perhaps the biggest one is "my ancestor's name was changed at Ellis Island." Desp...

A couple of years ago I was looking at a map I bought while on vacation in Italy. I realized all my ancestral hometowns fit into a small are...

Discovering where my 2nd great grandmother was born was a genealogy victory. No one else in my extended family knew about this town. They o...

I've had 16 homes in my life. And that's not counting college dorms or the months my family lived with relatives. It's a lot to ...

When shopping for a new home, you have to look past the dirty carpet to envision what the house can be. That's true in genealogy researc...

I'm close to finishing the source citation clean-up project I started in January. It's been massive. My tree has more than 57,000 p...