Genealogy research is no different than other types of knowledge acquisition in that you will find it is easier to progress by following certain procedures and moving from there into another step. A reasonable progression of your research will usually take in ten steps, although some of them, like anything else, won’t be necessary in some cases...

There is not a genealogist, amateur or professional who has not struggled at times to understand a document that is written in more archaic, or older terminology. As you can see by the document above, a document which is partially hand written and in part printed, their are rampant misspellings and areas in which deciphering the old script is diff...

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...