Searching for a birth or death record in Arizona? The Arizona Department of Health Services has made it very easy with their online “Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates” website.  This site allows access to the digitized images of county or state issued birth and death certificates. You can search the database for births that [...]

It’s here! At the recent BYU Computerized Genealogy and Family History Conference, held in conjunction with the NGS Conference in Salt Lake City, we announced the 2010 list of the 50 Most Popular Genealogy Websites. It is now posted on our site for ready reference.
For the third year in a row, we’ve identified the genealogy [...]

I recently worked with a case where a client wanted to know about his father. He was 85 years old. His parents married when his father was in the service but were divorced shortly after. He never knew his father and wanted to know what happened to him. Through research we were able identify his [...]

You’ve been sitting at your computer diligently researching, notice that you’re hungry, and it slowly dawns on you that you haven’t eaten all day.
You know that Ahnentahfel is not an Egyptian Pharoah.
You don’t travel with just a briefcase or folder back and forth to various research settings, but instead you carry in BOXES of genealogy.
As soon [...]

I had a discussion once about how many people claim “American” as their ancestry on the U.S. census. This person felt that this was a sign of how many people didn’t know where their ancestry originated. I took it as a sign of a lot of people feeling they are not English [...]

A couple of weeks ago I got to do some on-site research in Mexico. I was very excited to go down there, but quite nervous as well for several reasons: 1) I was going solo, 2) I was going to places I had never been before, 3) no one was going to  meet me down there, and [...]

Freeholder records are a record source that likely seems pretty obscure to most researchers. Many people probably have never heard of a freeholder. However, we have made an inventory of freeholders, freemen, and voting records for Ireland available on our web site. I compiled this inventory because there wasn’t a good overall inventory of where freeholder [...]