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How To Track Females in the Family Tree Using the Children’s Records
Explore an unusual genealogy research strategy to find the females in the family tree. Elusive female ancestors may be hiding in their children’s records. Tracking down our female ancestors requires thinking “outside the box”. Always focusing on her may not yield our desired results. By taking our focus off of our female ancestor and shifting that focus to other family members and even friends in her life, we can be sure of exhausting all possibilities of finding her in the records. Today, we are going to focus on your elusive female ancestor’s children. Uh oh….I can see that questioning look on your face! Grab a cup of coffee or tea…
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The “Everything” Page
I thought about calling this page “The Everything But the Kitchen Sink” page 😉, because that’s exactly what it is! Below you will find every genealogy freebie, service and paid training I offer here at Are You My Cousin?.
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Help! My Genealogy Research Is Stuck!
Is your genealogy research stuck? Just can’t find your ancestors? Learn why you are not finidng your ancestors and what you can do. One of my genealogy brick walls is Joanna Barrett. If you are a long time reader here at Are You My Cousin?, you’ve likely learned a bit about her already! Joanna is my Irish 3rd great grandmother who arrived in America around 1851 and somehow ended up married to William Richard Wimouth and living in Surry County, North Carolina. Oh,….and she could “cuss like a sailor” according to family lore. I have come to recognize part of the reason I struggle in my research of her,…
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A Baker’s Dozen of Free Genealogy Websites! Are You Missing These?
Explore more free genealogy websites for your ancestors. 13 helpful and lesser used databases, for the genealogy researcher. We’ve all heard it. “It” being not all records we need for genealogy research are online. That is absolutely true. We’ve also heard (and experienced) that genealogy research can be expensive. Also, absolutely true. Subscription databases, DNA tests and travel to archives and local libraries all add up. Saving money and being frugal genealogy researchers is important to us! We have limited genealogy dollars and we want to make those dollars count. I’m here to help! 13 Free Genealogy Websites I’ve got a baker’s dozen (13) free genealogy websites that you…