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 […]