Have you ever thought about publishing your family history research but didn’t know where to begin? Forgetting the technical challenges for a moment, how would you organize the material? What is the best way to present a book-length genealogy?
The answer is, emulate the award winners! Numerous genealogical societies give awards for excellent published family histories. [...]

The sources to which you can turn for genealogical information vary depending on the location and time period you are researching. For instance, if you are looking for your 18th-century relatives in the old country, you will certainly turn to parish records as a critical source of information – you won’t be able to count [...]

Last week I found a great bit of information on my great-great grandfather in a book digitized by Google. He was featured in a book about poets from South Dakota (and I came across this book with a simple Google search!). When I looked at the book, I was pleased to find that there were [...]

Through genealogical research, fact gets sorted out from fiction in a family legend!