Category: Websites

Top 5 Cemetery Websites for Finding Your Family’s Tombstones Premium

Cemeteries are critical genealogical resources, but they're often miles and miles from where you live. Cemetery websites can help you virtually visit.

10 Rules for Accepting (or Rejecting) Online Family Tree Hints

If you have an online family tree, you've likely seen "hints" to related records or other family trees. Here are 10 rules for evaluating and using hints.

Should You Take the Family Tree Hint? Premium

Hints in your online family tree make it easy to find new genealogy records about your ancestors. But are those records about the right folks? Our answers to 12 common questions will help you make the right call.

15 Websites for Finding Immigration Records Premium

Online resources for researching immigration records are abundant. Start your searches for ships’ passenger lists and other documents at these 15 websites.

How To Use Newspapers.com in 9 Steps Premium

Newspapers.com has newspapers dating from the 1700s to the 2000s.These tips will help you mine them for your family tree.

Find A Grave Locates Your Ancestors with These 9 Features

Here’s a quick look at Find A Grave, and how to locate grave sites for your ancestors, including photos and burial information.

Free 10 Essential Genealogy Research Forms

CEO Changes for Two Major Genealogy Leaders

Changes are imminent in the genealogy field today, as Ancestry.com and Findmypast have announced that they will be making transitions to their leadership.

How to Find Free Genealogy Records on Subscription Websites Premium

Ancestry and other subscription genealogy websites make some records available for free. Here's how to find free family history data on four pay sites.

48 Ancestry.com Search Tips Free eBook

No genealogy website is better-known or more visited than Ancestry.com: More than 11 million people use Ancestry.com resources each month. Yet the number of descendants logging on to Ancestry.com is dwarfed by the billions of ancestors documented within the “world’s largest family history resource.” Ancestry.com likely holds answers to at least some of your family […]