How To Trace Your Family Tree
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Everything You Need To Know To Find Who Your Ancestors Are
Trying to find who your ancestors are? Learn how to start your genealogy research, where to find your ancestors’ records, the tech and more. Researching who our ancestors are started out as just a fun thing to do on a hot summer afternoon when my children were bored. We quickly made some fun discoveries and the passion for genealogy research began. But…. I really didn’t know how to start our research. I made a lot of mistakes. [By this point the children were more interested in Mom doing the research. ] I quickly learned that finding my ancestors required learning how to research. Turns out I love the process of…
Researching Female Ancestors? You Can Overcome Those Research Roadblocks!
Trouble researching female ancestors? Learn how to find those elusive females in your family tree with these genealogy research strategies. Her name is Joanna Barrett. Or is it? Is Barrett her maiden name or a married name? If a married name, is it from a first or second marriage? All I really know before Joanna ended up in Surry County, North Carolina, is that she was born in Ireland and had a daughter – also named Joanna – in America. Joanna is a brick wall female ancestor. We all have brick wall ancestors, and many of those brick walls represent female ancestors. While you might want to throw your hands…
Use Social History in Genealogy Research – Telling Your Ancestors’ Stories
Social history in genealogy research tells the stories of our ordinary ancestors’ lives. [I like to think my ordinary ancestors were extraordinary in their own right.] Social history tells the stories of how our ancestors lived, worked and played. Understanding how our ancestors lived on a day to day basis, we can begin to understand how they made their life decisions. Choices such as: What occupation they chose When and if they moved to a new location Where they moved to Who they married Understanding the influences on our ancestors’ lives leads to more clues in our genealogy research. Often times we overlook the clues social history offers us as…
Your Guide To Cemetery Research – Are You Missing Important Genealogical Clues?
As a genealogy researcher, I spend a lot of time in cemeteries. I expect you do, too. Now it’s confession time….. Early in my genealogy research days, I would aimlessly wander about a cemetery looking for my ancestor. Once I found the gravestone, I took a photograph of the front and then I left. Doing cemetery research this way, I missed so much important genealogical information! [Maybe the title of this post should be “Don’t Research Like I Did!”] Fast forward to present day, and I come away from cemetery research with a lot of information on my ancestors. I created this guide to cemetery research to show you how…
