Fortify Your Family Tree

You can't spend 8 hours a day examining Italian vital records without learning a few things. When I began searching these records, I kne...

I've written about creating your ancestor's life story (" 5 Steps to Writing Your Ancestor's Life Story ") and your ow...

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

I bought my first computer—an actual IBM PC—in 1985 and upgraded from DOS to Windows 3.0 in 1990. I remember how juvenile early software pr...

I've been working on a big genealogy project with such efficiency it's amazing. When I built a newfound cousin's family tree bac...

Genealogy skills are a superpower. Researching your own family history teaches you how to go back another generation. Sometimes it's a l...