This post contain affiliate links.  Read my full disclosure policy here. One genealogy research tactic often over looked is to go back and check previous databases for newly added genealogy records and genealogy finds. Set a date on your calendar for a once a month check for newly added records. You may find new records or newly updated records pertaining to your research. While not all of your needed genealogy records are not online, don’t miss out when pertinent records do come online. April 2018 Genealogy Finds FamilySearch Check out this sampling of new records at FamilySearch this month: France, Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, Civil Registration, 1792-1893 Sweden, Örebro Church Records,…

This post contain affiliate links.  Read my full disclosure policy here. When researching ancestors – particularly my brick wall ancestors, I turn to the religious records in the hope I can find them mentioned there. Sadly, many of my ancestors belonged to small rural churches which rarely kept records or the church records have long since been lost. Twice I tracked down church records only to discover the records had been removed to a church member’s home for safe keeping ….. only to be lost to fire! Twice! I sometimes find myself “jealous” of my genealogy friends with Catholic ancestors. Oh, the records they find. Baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials………