Records Articles
You've been meaning to digitize all those family photos for years. Now's the time—just follow our five steps.
5/8/2013
These interpretations can help you speculate about what the cemetery's inhabitants were trying to tell you through their gravestone iconography.
11/1/2002
The Bureau of Land Management’s General Office has digitized more than 5 million land patents and made them searchable. This edition of Document Detective will help you survey the land of patents for your genealogical benefit.
11/6/2012
Learn the best genealogy records for researching your Quaker ancestors.
1/30/2013
Can you explain the absence of some family members from federal census reports, when their obituaries indicate that they were residents of the city during that time?
10/1/2004
Newspaper articles can offer loads of genealogical details about your
ancestors, but they can be difficult to track down. Use this step-by-step guide to get started on Journalism's Voyage West.
8/7/2012
Preserve those old, yellowed newspaper clippings and organize them into your own family news file.
1/9/2013
If you have a Civil War veteran in your family tree, you can learn a lot about his military service from his muster cards.
5/2/2011
Get tips for locating the records surveys created in the WPA era — and today.
4/1/2005
When your ancestor had a Social Security Number, but no birth certificate.
2/1/2004