Genealogists are on the constant search for more and more data online, but sometimes we don’t even realize what’s right under our noses. As Amanda pointed out in her blog entry last week, we don’t always know as much about the online sources as we thought we did. Well, do you know where to find [...]

So here is a helpful tip I thought I would pass along. One of my colleagues recently brought this cool online tool to my attention. This site allows you to view township and range grids on Google Earth maps.
Land records are often times used when tracing your ancestry, but sometimes the information is not all [...]

I hope Carl Sandburg won’t mind too much if I adapt his words: “Time is the coin of your genealogy. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
One thing I have learned as a Case [...]

One Sunday afternoon a hungry husband wandered into a busy kitchen where his wife was preparing their traditional Sunday meal of roast and potatoes. As he peered over her shoulder, he noticed that she had cut off 1 ½ inches of beef on each side of the roast. He sat with amazement as she took [...]

I was recently looking for a death entry in an online index to Michigan deaths. Multiple searches in the county did not reveal a single entry of interest. Digging a little deeper into the index showed that there were actually no entries for that particular county for the years of interest in that database. Although [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how lucky we are to be genealogists in the 21st Century. I’ll only provide one example of this, although there are many to choose from. I’ve only had to search through United States Federal census records on microfilm once. That’s right. Once. My more experienced colleagues have told [...]