I love Denise Levenick's "getting started" strategies for digital photo organization in the free May 2015 Family Tree...
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3 Sources for Historic Maps that May Surprise You
Old maps are an essential tool for discovering more about your family's history. If you have exhausted more...
Best Websites for Historical Maps: A New Premium Video!
Looking for a pre-1700 map of the Americas as the Europeans found it? Yearning to survey the plot of land your...
How to Find Your Family History in the 1950s
When we try to research our family history from recent decades, we often find privacy barriers: U.S. census records...
Google Scholar and ProQuest Team Up!
This just in! Google Scholar and ProQuest are teaming up to provide a publicly-accessible index to all of ProQuest's...
We Dig These New Genealogy Records Gems every Friday!
Every week, we see so many new genealogy records posted online! We highlight major resources in individual blog posts....
Google Scholar for Genealogy? Here’s Why to Try It
Recently I heard from Sue Neale, whose story offers a compelling reason to use Google Scholar for genealogy research!...
5 Most Popular Searches in Historical Newspapers–and Tips for Improving Yours!
The British Newspaper Archive celebrated its 3rd birthday recently by looking back at how people are searching its 9...
What to Do When Genealogy Records Were Burned
Recently Sue from Elk Grove, Illinois wrote in with a question about what to do when records were lost due to fire (or...