When you are researching your genealogy, it can be just like taking a journey to the past. Tracing the family history of yourself and your spouse makes for an interesting hobby. You can uncover fascinating historical information by going beyond names of your relatives, where they lived, and their dates of birth and death. Research how they lived...

Start out by placing your name on the left hand side of a page. Put the number 1 underneath your name. Up and to the right of your name, place the name of your dad with the number 2 under his name. Far below your dad’s name place the name of your mom with the number 3 under it. You should have something like the following. YOU….. You...

Your family tree is unique to yourself and your family. Joining it together with one of the most popular crafting hobbies going seems to be all the rage and we took a bit of time to explore it. What we found was that family tree scrapbooking was fun and interesting and that it made an incredible gift to give parents or grandparents. Your family tr...

GeneTrees DNA testing can give you the answers you’ve been waiting decades to get about the family, your ethnicity and where you actually came from.The GeneTree web site offers you the chance to learn more about your own heritage, and just maybe to get back in touch with relatives who are still living and learn a lot more about your common a...

Before digging into those however, its important to dig into your own resources, family members, personal papers and get everything organized and in order so that you have a method to your madness. While thats of course important in any kind of sound research, its especially important when it comes to finding African-American research. There are ...

Cases in point are orphans, adoptees and those who were sent to what were known in the past as the poorhouses, when both parents may have been lost for one reason or another. Quite frequently the records for this type thing are not available when going back more than a hundred odd years, since adoptions records were not a precise thing. How can yo...

What contexting really means and what it involves is that you as the researcher understand what was taking place in the nation during the time span that you are researching. For instance, if your research was taking place during the civil war, it would involve you understanding that for much of the west, it didn’t matter a great deal, but fo...

Its interesting to go through the bios of the earlier pioneer women, but until you actively add up everything that you’ve got in their bio’s, you don’t have a full picture of their life, and the things they went through. Women of the early pioneer era are mentioned only as mothers, wives or something along t hose lines, not as t...

The United States Traditions of Easter, those things we do each year, quite often without thinking about it, are hold overs from other countries, whose Easter, or springtime traditions we brought with us when those ancestors boarded the boats to come to the United States from their place of birth. In the US, we quite typically hide our childrens b...