Step 1: Gather the Right Tools Accurate records are essential for any genealogy project. Some people prefer to trace their Mormon ancestry on paper, while others would rather keep their research preserved in digital format. There are dozens of computer programs that can keep family history records organized, including a free LDS genealogy program ...

Facebook At first glance, Facebook may not seem like a genealogy tool, but completing a family tree is much easier with access to the enormous pool of Facebook users currently online. Facebook can connect you with long lost family members as easily as long lost friends; it even has an app affiliated with the history site Footnote.com. The Footnote...

When doing family history research illness and death play a large part in understanding what happened to ancestors. The illness that an ancestor may have had is not always clear. This is this is due to the fact that many illnesses either do not exist today or their names have been changed through the years. It is often important to know what an il...

Military records are able to help in family research by giving clues to where a soldier or sailor resided, what they did while in the service and when in combat whether they survived or not. There are military records that can tell if the ancestor was discharged from the military and when, this can lead to other clues about where they lived and wha...

Tracing ancestors can be difficult and one of the ways to find many of the male and some female ancestors is by their occupation. These occupations had different names other than the names of the same occupations as today. There were also other occupations that no longer exist. There are many old occupations and lists of these can be found in book...

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...

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...