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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Tracing Female Ancestors Through A Child’s Records
Tracking down our female ancestors requires thinking “outside the box”. Always focusing on her may not yield the desired results. By taking our focus off of our female ancestor, we can be sure of exhausting all possibilities of finding her in the records. We’ve discussed shifting our focus to your elusive female ancestor’s children in a previous post. [Go ahead and click over to read it. I’ll wait.] Now that you are convinced of the need to shift your focus off of the female ancestor you are researching, let’s take a closer look at this in action. Tracing Female Ancestors Through A Child’s Records We are starting with John White…
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Searching For Irish Genealogy Records – Where Do You Start?
Searching for Irish genealogy records can be daunting, but is worth the effort! Learn how to start finding your Irish ancestors! Searching for Irish ancestors is tough, or at least, it can be! I discovered my one Irish ancestor – my great-great-great grandmother Joanna Barrett. She is one of the first brick walls I came across, and unfortunately, that wall stands firm. I have not been able to advance this line back further. One day…… Why are Irish ancestors hard to research? Researching Irish ancestors is a bit of a sub-specialty in genealogy. Like genealogy research in most areas, it presents with its own unique challenges. A few reasons can…
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Researching English Ancestors – Let’s Get Started
This post contain affiliate links. Read my full disclosure policy here. Are you struggling to begin researching English ancestors? Your earlier research indicated your ancestors came to America from England, but where do you start? Many American genealogy researchers look forward to – and dread – being able to “jump the pond” to in their genealogy research of English. Maybe you already have. Was your experience like mine? My Talbot(t) family research landed me squarely on English soil, and I had NO IDEA what to do next. Really. I had not an idea how to proceed. See, you are probably like me. When you research ancestors on American soil, you…
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Worth a Thousand Words: How to Find and Use Image-Only Collections on FamilySearch
If you’ve entered your family names in databases like Ancestry.com and didn’t find the answer you needed, your search is not done! Did you know there are millions of pages of records digitized online at FamilySearch that don’t show up when you conduct a general search? FamilySearch runs a massive crowdsourced indexing program where volunteers like you or I can spend time transcribing records. These transcriptions can then be queried by the website’s search engines, and that process is how you are able to locate an image by searching for a name. These indexing projects are organized by record type, time period, and language. Some collections are larger than others,…