• Find a Specific Site, or Go Live On Location: There are web sites at USGenWeb, or WorldGenWeb where you can find specific counties which are what you’re going to be needing next. Depending on which country you’re interested in you’re going to need county specific information now that you’ve dug a bit deeper into things.- depending upo...

Genealogy,or tracing one’s ancestors is probably becoming more popular by the day. Genealogy, researching your family’s history has grown in popularity for several reasons, not the least of which is a penchant for people, in this most rushed day and age, to want to know where they come from and what they owe certain traits to. In some ...

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...

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...

Depending on where you live in the world, it is still possible in most cases to order copies of the certificates that you’d like to use to help you in your genealogy. Among those which could be helpful are the birth, marriage, death and divorce (although these were less common) certificates that may be on file. Various countries began in their r...

If you’re not familiar with the term Melungeon, then you’re not unlike many others, even some genealogists aren’t aware of the term and haven’t a clue what it means, or who it applies to. However if your family comes from the Cumberland Gap area, or Cumberland Plateau, and called Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, or West Virgi...