Genealogy Gift Ideas: Get Organized and Find Everything!
Some genealogists--actually, most genealogists--need help being organized. These genealogy gift ideas are the perfect gift to give yourself: the gift of helping you keep track of your research, your sources and everything else in your family history world. These ideas...
13 Million Newly Published Genealogical Records from U.S., Australia and Ireland
More than 13 million new records recently appeared on findmypast.com, thanks to a new agreement between findmypast parent company DC Thomson Family History (formerly brightsolid online publishing) and FamilySearch International. Among these millions of records are...
Genealogy Gift Ideas: Create Video Magic
Get ready to create some video magic this year! I'll bet you know a few folks on your gift-giving lists who would love nothing better than a truly geeky gift. If you didn't see just the right item for them in yesterday's post on iPads, tablets and accessory gifts,...
A New Place to Look for Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Passenger List
Been looking for an immigrant ancestor to the United States? See if they're among the nearly 3 million passengers to Boston or the nearly 850,000 passengers to Philadelphia recently added to FamilySearch.org. The time period covered by these indexes includes an...
Genealogy Gift Ideas: Family History On-the-Go
These days, genealogists can take all their research "to-go" on their iPad or tablet. Here are some of my favorite genealogy gift ideas that harness the power of portable computing and a Black Friday / Cyber Monday Special you won't want to miss! If you aren't already...
Genealogy Gift Ideas: The Essentials
Every year people ask me for great genealogy gift ideas, so this year I'm counting down to the holidays by sharing my own holiday list (in addition to the Black Friday specials announced yesterday). Every day for the next week I'll post my top picks on several topics:...
14 Best Libraries for Genealogy via Brand New Pinterest Feature
Are you wondering how to find the best public libraries for genealogy research? Travel this very special map on my brand new Pinterest board, and click to explore some of my favorites (in no particular order.) The collections of these libraries span nationally and...
How to Find U.S. Digital Libraries and Archives
Ever wish there was a really easy directory for U.S. digital libraries and archives, organized by state with great commentary about the content? There is. But it's not in a place most genealogists would look. Open Education Database.org has a blog post called "250+...
Brazil Immigration Cards Among New Finds At FamilySearch.org
Nearly a million indexed records and images in the Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965, collection are among newly-posted data in FamilySearch's ever-growing free digital archive. The cards were issued by Brazilian consulates around the world and...
Family History Episode 7 – Best Genealogy Websites, Part 1
Originally published Fall 2008 Republished November 19, 2013 by Lisa Louise Cooke Download the Show Notes for this Episode Welcome to this step-by-step series for beginning genealogists—and more experienced ones who want to brush up or learn something new. I first ran...
RootsTech 2014: Use your iPad for Genealogy Research at the Family History Library
Thinking about attending RootsTech in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2014? Then I'm guessing a trip to the Family History Library (FHL) is part of your plan. Here's a great tip: bring your iPad or tablet computer and don't make a single photocopy while you're there! Last...
Tips for Collaborative Genealogy: Dropbox for Genealogists
To celebrate my article in the new issue of Family Tree Magazine (co-authored with Genealogy Gems Contributing Editor Sunny Morton), I'm running a series of posts on teamwork tips and technology tools for collaborative research. This post covers one of my favorite...
Family History Episode 6 – Sleuthing Out Families and What Records Exist
Published November 5, 2013 by Lisa Louise Cooke Download the Show Notes for this Episode Welcome to this step-by-step series for beginning genealogists—and more experienced ones who want to brush up or learn something new. I first ran this series in 2008. So many...
Tips for Collaborative Genealogy: Research with a Partner
Recently Katharine, a Premium podcast member, asked for my advice on collaborating with a research partner. She wrote, “While I am primarily a digital researcher, and have divested myself of duplicate papers, my research buddy uses a lot of binders and has many...
Voices of the Past: Canadian Oral History Project
The Victoria Genealogical Society has started a new memory project called "Voices of the Past." They are recording the stories of senior members of their community and posting them to their website. You can listen to any given story or click on one of the themes...
Free Helps for PAF and RootsMagic Users
RootsMagic, the makers of award-winning family history software, now offers free guides for users of PAF (Personal Ancestral File, the free family tree software that is becoming obsolete), FamilySearch Family Tree and their own RootsMagic software. "RootsMagic for PAF...
Newsboys: Colorful Figures of the Past
Newsboys or "newsies" used to sell the news. But for a time in American history, they were the news! You'd know them by their common call: "Read all about it!" It was their job to sell stacks of inexpensive newspapers on every street corner that would support them....
Afghanistan and Iraq Casualty Databases Now at Fold3
There's a saying that "past is present," and nowhere is that truth more apparent than family history. Sometimes we get very stark reminders that the same things that affected our ancestors--war, poverty, conflict and the like--affect us today. Fold 3 has added new...