A close loved one of mine recently passed away. At the time of the death a treasure trove of documents pertaining to the family was created though the estate was very small. There are more death records than the modern death certificate provided by a county or state government agency:

The assisted living facility, nursing home, [...]

In a recent email exchange with a prospective client, she asked the following question:
“Please can you explain why it costs so much as I have provided you with the exact index number for the one specific record? Number 838308.00; I was hoping you would charge me 50 dollars for the one record. Also I’m not [...]

As a genealogist, one thing I have to be constantly aware of is variant name spellings. There is nothing worse to me than having spent an hour searching a complicated name index for several variants, only to get to the end and realize I forgot one variant of the name. And then have to go [...]

I just returned from a trip to visit my family in Dallas. Since I last visited my parents, they moved, and in their move they discovered boxes upon boxes of pictures that they had forgotten about. Most of these pictures were of our immediate family members, but there were quite a few of grandparents, cousins, [...]

Here at ProGenealogists, we want to introduce you, our valued clients and colleagues, to our staff members. We’ve decided to do this by turning the tables and doing a little bit of research on our researchers! Actually, we’ve put together some basic interview questions for them to answer so everyone can get to know them a [...]

We live in a marvelous age where information from all around the world is available to us with the click of a mouse. Have you ever wondered how genealogists keep up with all the new databases and technologies that are available? One of the keys lies in three little letters: RSS.
RSS stands for Really Simple [...]