When your ancestor had a Social Security Number, but no birth certificate.
2/1/2004
These interpretations can help you speculate about what the cemetery's inhabitants were trying to tell you through their gravestone iconography.
11/1/2002
Books, Web sites and more
10/1/2001
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
What happens to the uprooted graves and crypts in hurricane-ravaged cemeteries?
7/1/2007
Original copies of newspapers are a thing of the past.
10/1/2001
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
Family history researchers created a surge in Freedom of Information Act requests in 2004.
8/1/2005
Public records laws are making it harder to get Grandma's birth certificate. Find out why — and what you can do about it.
12/1/2006
Documents produced by marriages
6/1/2000