With nearly a billion searchable historical records, the new FamilySearch.org offers brilliant possibilities for furthering your research. Our guide spotlights tips and hints for making the most of the website.
6/14/2011
Do creative juices flow through your family tree? Discover your inventive ancestors — and get inspired by their ingenuity — using resources from the US patent and trademark office.
4/1/2004
You know when your ancestors were born, but do you know how they were born?
11/17/2010
Pinpointing the county in which your family lived during a given year is easy, thanks to the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
6/14/2011
Need a jump-start? Juice up your research by consulting the roster of family history records listed here.
7/1/2008
A new-on-the-scene search engine, Mocavo, is genealogy-specific and blazing fast. It searches tens of thousands of websites such as forums, blogs, state archives, Find A Grave, the Library of Congress, Internet Archive and the National Archives.
8/2/2011
Walk down the aisle into your family history and discover what marriage records and customs can reveal about your ancestors.
1/21/2011
Do wagon train rosters exist?
7/1/2007