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...

Whatever your reason for wanting to trace your Native American ancestry, whether its to become a part of the tribe, or simply to verify that old family story that says you were a direct descendant of a federally recognized Native American tribe, it’s going to start just like any other kind of genealogy. At the beginning. The beginning of any...

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...