When you go about researching a family line, what are the first records you look at? Probably census, birth, marriage, and death records – and rightly so, since they can so neatly fill in the blanks on your charts. However, if you look at what records are available for a particular place and time, there [...]

I recently posted about the genealogical value of newspapers, and how newspapers can add a lot of life to our ancestors. In my experience, this has been particularly true of newspapers that have been indexed. Instead of just relying on the vital dates about my ancestors to look for applicable articles, I can find any [...]