I just read on Dick Eastman’s site that Walton County, Georgia’s Besse Cooper is the World’s Oldest Person at 115 years old. I was curious about Besse. Who was she? What led to her longevity, her ancestry, her lifestyle, occupation? What could I find out about her online? What an amazing life she’s led so [...]

7 things I learned from my dad:
“If you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all.” My dad didn’t like hearing gossip or hearing someone speak unkindly about others. I think there must have been someone in his childhood who spent a lot of time gossiping and he ended up having a big distaste [...]

I felt that Rosie O’Donnell did an amazing job on TV during her quest to learn more about her ancestry. I could tell from the beginning that she really wanted this; that she had questions about who she was. As she continued to ask many of the right questions during the show, she gradually uncovered the truth about [...]

When I was very young, Thanksgiving meant lots of food, visits with grandparents, dressing up like a Pilgrim, and making hand turkeys with multi-colored construction paper at school. Things were certainly simpler as a child. I enjoy those fond Thanksgiving memories.
As I’ve grown and as life has become more complicated, Thanksgiving means quite a bit more. I started [...]

I found a great new iPad application! It allows you to connect with your home or work computer and run that computer and all its programs remotely. Isn’t that cool? iTeleport is really easy to set up and there are step-by-step instructions and videos. The iPad becomes a true business tool with this awesome app.
The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is so exciting for us to see genealogy come to life on network TV in the new NBC series “Who Do You Think You Are?“ I hope you are enjoying every minute of the journey upon which each of the celebrities embarks. One of the best aspects of having conducted research on each of the episodes, [...]

Family Tree Magazine has just announced its list of the “40 Best Genealogy Blogs” and ProGenealogists is honored to be chosen for the “How-To” category. Our team of authors sends acknowledgment to everyone who was nominated in recognition of all the hard work that goes into maintaining a blog. Special congrats, too, to all those [...]

Dear Genealogist, I have just a simple request. I would like my great-grandmother’s maiden name.
Is it really that simple? Well, that depends … and, I won’t bother you, dear reader, to launch into all the genealogical questions that go through my mind with this question. In fact, as soon as I hear a potential client say [...]