Question: How Can I Tell Which Person I Am Researching When My Ancestors All Have the Same Name? This is a hard one! When you have John Williams {1790-1830}; John Williams {1815-1875}; John J. Williams {1828-1903} and John R. Williams … Continued
For the next few weeks I am going to be answering questions from some of my readers. Question: I’ve been researching my family, and cannot find any of them on the 1870 census. They are on the … Continued
I love Ancestry.com and they offer many wonderful services. One of these services is to upload your family tree and attach records to that tree. This makes it very easy and convenient. However, there are some reasons to save your … Continued
If you use Ancestry.com you know that you have the option of exploring other researcher’s trees. There are times when these trees can be a gold mine, but other times when they can be a mine trap. However, there is … Continued
Last week, I shared some of the benefits of ancestry hints. But, when using these hints we also need to proceed with caution. In other words, we need to review the hints before we go and click randomly adding all … Continued
If you have your family tree on Ancestry.com, then you are familiar with their ancestry hints. There are many benefits to Ancestry hints. So, what are some of them? Discovering missing family members or ancestors Discovering where your ancestor lived … Continued
Have you reached a brick wall that is driving you crazy? Once you’ve been over the wall, under the wall and on each side of the wall with no results, you begin to feel frustrated and as if the situation … Continued
Over the years I have run into several sensitive issues on various sides of the family. Each family has a different way of dealing with this information. For some families it is a well known secret, for others they do not … Continued
The Social Security Death Index is most commonly known as the SSDI. This is a great resource to use in genealogy research, to determine when an individual died or if an individual is deceased. Please beware that this is not … Continued
I had a cousin that provided me with the family Bible of my great-great grandparents. This was a huge, but pleasant surprise at the time. The Bible was a large Bible dating back to the 19th Century. Tenderly I cradled … Continued