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Answers for the beginner, the befuddled and anyone hitting a brick wall.
11/16/2011
Turn the page in your family history with these 50 essential roots references.
10/20/2011
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
Published family histories can save or sink your research. Follow our advice for finding these potential genealogy treasure troves and mining the good information while weeding out the bad.
8/2/2011
Membership societies exist for ethnic groups large and small. We've included those with national or international scopes.
8/2/2011
Save yourself hours of scrolling newspaper microfilm: Now you can go online to search more historical papers than ever -- and get family stories in seconds.
8/2/2011
Records from fraternal benefit orders (FBOs) are another resource to add to your genealogy arsenal.
8/2/2011
Confused by the complications of copyright? Get the answers you need before you download that photo, upload those GEDCOMs or publish your family's story.
7/1/2011
The ability to take your tree with you and to view attached records makes this irresistible for any iPad- or iPhone-owning genealogist.
6/14/2011
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