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The Best Way to Find Free Old Maps at DavidRumsey.com

Our ability to find our ancestors is rooted in two important pieces of information: the locations where they lived and...

Old maps are vitally important for genealogy because the characteristics of a location can change in many ways over...

These free online historical maps may help you learn more about your ancestors’ daily lives and flesh out your family...

You can now see New York City street views from the late 1800s and early 1900s as Google Earth street views. Take a...

When you need help deciphering place names in hard-to-read genealogy documents, two free online tools may have great...

Some Ancestry.com collections are super valuable but, for one reason or another, are easy to miss. You DON'T want to...

Ever thought of visiting your childhood home? Here's a story about people who are actually buying theirs back. For the...

Track down your German ancestors with Germany genealogy expert Jim Beidler. He's here to share great tips for using...

Digitized Irish historical maps are among new genealogy records online. Also: Irish civil registrations; Irish,...