How To Trace Your Family Tree
Wondering how to trace your family tree? Find genealogy how-to articles to successfully find your ancestors and build your family tree. Finding your ancestors does not have to overwhelming, but it does take time. Learning step by step is the key to successful genealogy research. Here at Are You My Cousin? you will learn:
- How to start your research the right way (Hint: It's with a plan!)
- How to progress your research forward
- How to find and use both common and uncommon genealogy records.
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Map Collections
July 2018 is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 25 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 25 – Finding Map Collections Location! Location! Location! It’s important when buying or selling a home, AND it’s important in your genealogy research. Using maps in your genealogy research help to Track an ancestor’s migration route Find towns that no longer exist or that went by a different name at a different point in history Locate and confirm an ancestor’s land Indicate…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – FlickR
July 2018 is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 24 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 24 – Finding Genealogy Clues on FlickR FlickR is another great tool to add to your genealogy toolbox! Archives, museums and libraries are posting digital images from their collections. I am even seeing images from archives and university private collections appear. Take a look at the State Archives of North Carolina Flickr page. Examples of the types of images that can be…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Merchant Records
July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 23 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 23 – Merchant Records Your ancestors lived in a community. In that community they lived, worked and shopped. Store owners kept records and ledgers of their businesses. It is possible to find your ancestor listed among the IOUs or accounts payable/receivable for a merchant in their area. Merchant records (also known as ledger account books) help define a community and its residents in…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – WorldCat
July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 22 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 22 – WorldCat Discovering WorldCat and how to use it in conjunction with genealogy research was a game changer for me. So, what is it? WorldCat is essentially the world’s biggest card catalog for books, articles, etc. Using WorldCat enables the genealogy researcher to search libraries around the world for family history resources to advance your research. A variety of genealogical information can be found…