If you have ancestors that lived in Stockholm and haven’t yet visited Stockholms Stadsarkiv you should take a look at the resources available there. Depending on the time period in which you are interested, you may just find the answers to some of your research questions on this site. In addition to offering indexes and [...]

My husband and I are currently moving and he is, unfortunately, often traveling for business. This presents some challenges as there are many things to do and he is only here occasionally to help. In a recent late night conversation over the phone he asked if I had put up Christmas lights yet. Silly me–all [...]

It happens every year and for some, every quarter. The saying goes that there is nothing more certain than death and taxes. We all hate having the government reach into our pockets and take our cash, but for those of us who love genealogy and family history, the tax man can be a real boon [...]

I was recently “over my head” in tracing the origins of some former slaves – that is, “over my head” in both the sense that slave research is difficult (emotionally and academically) and the research was even more complicated because of the specific goal the client had in mind.
While I can’t help anyone with the [...]

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to think a bit about interviewing relatives. My sister-in-law was quizzing me about the best way to get information from her grandfather about their family history the other night. I’ve also recently had the opportunity to sit down with my own grandmother, who is at the point in life where [...]

As a professional genealogist, I’ve found that everyone I talk to wants answers. It seems like whenever I tell someone that I’m a professional genealogist, they immediately have a family problem that they think I should be able to solve for them on the spot. Well, just like the cure for the common cold, the [...]

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 [...]