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Summer Road Trip: Searching for New York Ancestors
Discover your New York ancestors on the Summer Road Trip through FindMyPast’s U. S. record collections. Start finding your ancestors. We are off to stop #2 on our Summer Road Trip with FindMyPast through the U. S. record collections. If you missed our first stop in Cincinnati, head back to the first post in our series and learn about your Ohioan ancestors. On to New York….🗽 Our Second Stop: New York City Here we are in the Big Apple! Many of our ancestors came into America at New York including my husband’s ancestors. While some settled and stayed in New York, others migrated to the Rochester, New York area. My…
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Summer Road Trip! How To Discover Your Cincinnati Ancestors in FindMyPast
Explore your Cincinnati ancestors with this virtual summer road trip through the records of FindMyPast. Learn records and resources to further your genealogy research, too!
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Get the Most from A FindMyPast Free Trial
Ready to start a FindMyPast free trial? How to get most out of your genealogy research and decide if it’s right for you. Spoiler Alert: The strategies I show you below work for all genealogy type free trials! Start With a Research Plan I might sound a bit like a broken record sometimes, but I have to say this one more time. Start your research with a plan! Prepping for a trip to an archive or prepping for research session online at one of the genealogy databases is really no different. You must start with a research plan. Your genealogy research plan does not have to be overly commplicated. Having…
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Traveling Across the Ocean…Genealogy Research in Catholic Records
Jen Baldwin of FindMyPast joined me recently to talk about researching ancestors in Catholic records. FindMyPast’s Catholic Heritage Archive is the go-to for researching your Catholic ancestors. If you are not familiar with these records at FindMyPast you are in for a treat! Let’s look at a few highlights, and then I recommend you sit back and watch the replay of our recent Facebook/Youtube Live located at the bottom of this post. Know Your History – History Dictates the Records! As genealogy researchers we know social history including the religious and political climate is important to the research process. Understanding the history of the Catholic church in the country where…
