Genealogists often love charts. One of the first things I’m interested in when I use a new piece of genealogical software is to see what kinds of charts they can generate. A lot of us family historians are “big-picture” people who like to see everything at once, so the more ways to do it, the [...]

One of the most useful, but lesser known resources at Ancestry.com, is their vast collection of city directories.   City directories offer a small glimpse—a year-to-year census if you will—into your ancestor’s life.  I have used city directories to help me determine:

Where an ancestor is located in a census record
When an ancestor died
When an ancestor immigrated [...]

I have a third-great-grandmother, Mary J. Freeman, who I recently decided to focus on in order to learn about her origins, which I only knew from census records as New York. Her husband was Royal Oliver. I found four records on FamilySearch accounting for their marriage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1856, though they varied a [...]

There are many excellent resources out there for the genealogists studying their English heritage. We all know about sites such as Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com and the the like. However, the English county record offices and other county-level governmental bodies are slowly but surely digitizing a great deal of old records. It is interesting that many of [...]

So, some folks got up this last weekend, before the sun, and stood in long lines outside stores, hoping for a great deal. Big screen TV? New smart phone? Clothes for the children who will grow out of them before the next “Black Friday?” In America, we are bombarded with advertisements that invite us to [...]

Many years back, before I began seriously investigating my ancestors, and then researching those of others, I can remember hearing a story about where we (the Holdens) came from. I was taking care of a niece and nephew one night so that my aunt and uncle could have an evening out. At about 2am they [...]

I had the pleasure this month of visiting the Archives de Paris, the public archives of the city of Paris. It is located on boulevard Sérurier near the Porte des Lilas metro station. That metro station is on metro lines 11 and 3bis.
During my visit, I was impressed by the records available at the Archives [...]

My birthday is next week. This always makes me nostalgic for home, more specifically, the home of my childhood. I grew up in New England, and there is no better place to be in the fall than in New England.  The countryside comes alive with vibrant colors. The air is a crisp as freshly picked [...]

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