Anyone who does genealogy even as a weekend hobby knows that you’re going to be literally buried under files and folders in no time at all. The hobbyist to the expert, wants to keep a copy of everything that you come across that pertains to what you are currently researching, and we are tempted by the vast array of copiers to do just that. Once y...

The best kind of oral interview is the one where the subject of your interview knows exactly what to expect. Your interviewee has been preplanning for the interview and knows what to expect from you and may have some documents with them that will help them to refresh their memory. Suggestions and discussion prior to the meeting will help to bring ...

People who are convinced that their ancestors sailed here on a passenger ship are usually quite determined to find them, and they always seem to believe that the records for that ship will show precisely where their ancestors were from as well as where they sailed from. To be honest its not always so simple as that, and in some cases, the ships pas...

For those who are just beginning in their tracing of their families roots , finding your ancestors is difficult enough and finding a way to chart it makes it a great deal easier. There are several free softwares that make the task easier and will help you to be able to write down all that you learn about your ancestors, or to track your progress in...

Land titles and property records are some of the most numerous of all the types of documentation that is available in the United states. While you may not always be able to pinpoint the marriage date or birth date of an ancestor, you will most likely always be able to find the area in which they lived based upon the taxes they paid, the properti...

The wedding on the American frontier was taken very seriously even if the paperwork was not. It isn’t always possible to find out where or when your ancestors were married and here’s why. By and large, there were invitations however they were usually only by word of mouth and any event such as this meant several days of party time frontier st...

Fortunately there are places where you can go to find some of the things that you might not find in the census or family records, such as the marriages of those who are further up the line than just parents or grandparents. The Uk particularly provides for this in a number of ways. There are national indexes that will help you to find all of the r...

In the Midwest, particularly Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota and areas such as those, many of the immigrants were of Norwegian descent, which presents it’s own special problems when trying to trace your roots. Most people know well about the explorations of the Vikings along the coasts of North America, which began long before the English expediti...

The most common forms that you’re going to find to keep your genealogy information together are those which are also used by genealogists the world over. They are the pedigree chart, or the family group sheet. Both of these will help you keep all the information that you’ve found on your family history together in one place. They are e...

When you finally decide that you’d like to get you family tree down, its going to take a bit of effort to accomplish but there are a few things you can do that will help to speed the process. First of all , you want to round up everything that you’ve got that might mean something. Grab photos, documents, old letters, books, bibles, and eve...