Records Articles
You've found the record you're desperate for — too bad the old handwriting looks like chicken scratch. Here's your ticket to translating antique text.
5/1/2006
It's tough to win at family tree research when you don't know the rules. But don't sit out — just use our quick guide to finding your ancestors' records from birth to death.
5/1/2006
Answers for the beginner, the befuddled and anyone hitting a brick wall.
4/1/2006
Answers for the beginner, the befuddled and anyone hitting a brick wall.
2/1/2006
Answers for the beginner, the befuddled and anyone hitting a brick wall.
2/1/2006
The Family History Library plans to index the microfilmed records in the church's Granite Mountain Records Vault.
2/1/2006
Don't let a burned courthouse dash your dreams of ancestral discovery. Use these secrets to rekindle your genealogical quest.
1/1/2006
Family history researchers created a surge in Freedom of Information Act requests in 2004.
8/1/2005
Q. The last record I can find of my father-in-law's half sister is a 1930 census record from Los Angeles. The library suggested I use city directories, but I live in the Midwest. How would I find and use Los Angeles directories?
6/1/2005
Q. My grandmother gave me a newspaper article about an ancestor who received a patent for some kind of saw in 1911 or 1912. I've tried searching the US Patent and Trademark Office Web site, but haven't found any matches. I don't have a patent number. Now what?
6/1/2005