How to Get Better at Genealogy Without Leaving Home
We're really looking forward to bringing you the Family Tree University Winter 2017 Virtual Conference, coming up March 3-5! If you haven't been to one of our Virtual Conferences, here's what's terrific about it: It brings the learning and camaraderie of a genealogy conference right to you home. No need...
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How to Cite a Marriage Record Found in Probate Premium
In this Q&A, David Fryxell outlines a strategy for creating a source citation for a marriage record found in probate records.
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41 Search Tips for Google, Ancestry and Other Genealogy Websites Premium
Think your ancestors are a lost cause? Not with our search tips for finding your family history online on Google, Ancestry and other websites.
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Six Strategies to Discover More Records About Your Ancestors Premium
Sticking to your favorite websites can give you a narrow picture of your ancestor. Let our six questions lead you down a new path—to untapped resources and a wider view of your family tree.
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Genealogy Q&A: Charting Your Modern Family Premium
Unsure how to include an open adoption, surrogate child or same-sex marriage in your software or online tree? Our guide to charting today's families will show you how.
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10 Ways to Connect With Distant Cousins Premium
Distant cousins can swap family stories, share photos and add to your family tree. How do you find them? Try these 10 techniques.
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Free 10 Essential Genealogy Research Forms
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Genealogy Assumptions Part II: The Sisters Theory
Last week I posted about nearly blending my third-great-uncle Henry Thoss' consecutive spouses into one person, based on an assumption about his household's 1940 census listing. In 1940, Henry was listed with wife Eleanor, 50, and mother-in-law Mary Dietrich, suggesting that Mary was Eleanor's mother, and Dietrich was her...
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Citing Genealogy Sources for Regular People
Source citation is something of a hot button in genealogy. It's easy to become petrified you won't do it right, or to imagine that citing sources will take up all your precious research time. That's why I love the idea of our Source Citations for Regular People webinar with Shannon...
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Six Classic Genealogy Brick Wall-Busting Tips
You probably have at least one unanswered genealogy question, an ancestor who's really difficult to trace, or a family with gaps in their timeline. These classic brick wall-busting tips come from our upcoming Conquer Your Research Challenges: Solutions and Advice to Overcome Your Genealogy Problems one-week workshop: Consult genealogy...
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14 Ways to Beat Genealogy Brick Walls Premium
Use these 14 strategies to build a case file on your hardest-to-find ancestors and crack those brick-wall mysteries.
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Tips for Hiring a Professional Genealogist Premium
Expert answers on hiring a professional genealogy researcher for record lookups.
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8 “Next Steps” For Starting Your Genealogy
This week, I had the pleasure of Skyping with a class of sixth graders working on a genealogy project. Here's a photo their teacher Tweeted: They'd already interviewed family members and done some research into census records, so after talking a little bit about how I got interested in...
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