This week at the National Genealogical Society conference here in Salt Lake City, I was thrilled to see the progress being made by FamilySearch in publishing/indexing European records. Many new European records are available on FamilySearch’s Record Search site including from Austria, France, Ireland, Russia, and Ukraine, among other countries. These are some of the [...]

Come on, you’ve thought about it. You love doing genealogy. Why can’t someone pay you to do genealogy? Well, the good news is, someone can! I just took a phone call from a student I advised a couple of years ago about research, reports and genealogical credentials. She was interviewing professional genealogists about their take [...]

A librarian friend of mine recently shared on Facebook this opinion piece about the inevitable future demise of brick and mortar libraries. Of course, my librarian friend and all her fellow library-loving friends (including myself) had lots to say about this piece. And while the article does make excellent points about the accessibility of handy [...]

After playing with my son’s iTouch gizmo and loving it, I was pretty excited to try the iPad. I have had it about a week now. I have mixed feelings about it.
Pros:

It is extremely portable. There is no mouse … you navigate just by touching the screen, and the screen is quite responsive.
The screen is beautiful. It is [...]

Por lo general los registros de la Iglesia Católica son los primeros que se consultan para hacer investigación genealógica en México. Esto es porque es más probable que la familia haya bautizado a sus hijos pocos meses después del nacimiento del niño(a) que los haya registrado con las autoridades civiles. Sin embargo, puede tomar mucho [...]

Generally in Mexican research, Catholic parish records are consulted first because people were more consistent in baptizing their children within a few months of the child’s birth than they were in registering their children’s births with the civil authorities. However, when doing research in big cities, plowing through the hundreds and even thousands of baptismal [...]

Many people have contacted ProGenealogists about the possibility of becoming an Italian citizen through descent. We have assisted many clients in this endeavor. If you have Italian ancestry, then you may be interested to learn about this option.

I will not take the time here to outline all of the requirements one must meet to claim [...]

We’ve been busy improving our website here at ProGenealogists, and we wanted to let you know about the new articles and pages that we’ve added. Go check them out when you have a few minutes to spare:

Kory Meyerink has started a series of articles about genealogical fallacies.
Natalie Cottrill wrote about researching Sarah Jessica Parker’s family [...]