New Years is an excellent time to tally up your family tree for 2017. The goal of this exercise is to calculate

Besides census records, a genealogist’s bread and butter will be Birth, Marriage, and Death records (commonly referred to as the BMD). Created

You can’t throw a stone without hitting a genealogist who is using DNA testing to further their research (trust me, I’ve tried).

My Name is “No” The nice weather is finally showing up in force nationwide. It’s time for bleary-eyed genealogists to head out

Last time we spoke, I talked of having a goal for where your research was going. It’s important to know what you’ll

Why do you research family history? Is there a specific relative you’re trying to learn more about? Are you researching a specific

I don’t follow the news. It’s not that I stay out of touch with the world, but it seems media outlets go

I started to write this post about forming a good query for Facebook groups: how to ask a question in such a