Do you wish you knew more about your ancestor's everyday life experience? Use social history for genealogy: to fill in...
Tell Your Ancestor’s Story: Use Social History for Genealogy
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Beginner Articles
Tips for Digitizing Old Home Movies and Photographs
If you’re lucky enough to have old home movies or photos, you probably want to preserve and share them. Consider these...
7 Reasons to Start a Family History Blog
More and more people are blogging about their family history. Here's why! When it comes right down to it, many of us...
How to Reconstruct Your Early Childhood Memories and Stories
Most of us don't recall our early years well. How can we tell our life's story if we don't remember the first chapter?...
Language Translation Tool for Genealogy: MyHeritage’s New Global Name Translation
At some point in the past, many of our relatives--overseas or in the same land--spoke a different language. They used...
Help! My Email Doesn’t Fit in Viewer Window
Recently I heard from Carol in St. Louis, Missouri, who was frustrated that she couldn't read my entire email...
Missing Birth Record? Here’s What You Can Do To Track It Down
Have you ever had a case of a missing birth record, in a time and place where you know there should be one? It's so...
The 1910 Census in Puerto Rico: A Surprising Lesson on Using Census Records for Genealogy
Imagine taking a standard U.S. census form, translating it into Spanish, administering it to a newly-American...
Family History for Kids Starts WITH the Kids
Kids don't recall much of their young lives. But we as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles know their stories. We...