Genealogy Volunteer Indexing Projects That Help You Find Family
Volunteers make the genealogy world go 'round. Find out how your fellow family historians are giving their time to help you discover your ancestors!
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Research Roadmap: Enumeration District Maps
Learn how census enumeration district maps can be useful to your research, and get tips for finding and reading these maps.
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How to Find 4 Kinds of Family History Books Free on FamilySearch
We'll show you how to find four kinds of family history books in the free online collection at the FamilySearch genealogy website.
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Plotting Your Ancestor’s Village With Kartenmeister
Once you find the name of your German ancestor’s hometown, you’ll want to pinpoint the location so you can start researching church and other historical records in the right city or village. The Kartenmeister website helps you locate more than 71,000 places in what was once...
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Your Genealogy Research: Back Up This, Not That
If you use a cloud backup service with storage limit, you may be looking for files to eliminate from your online archive. You probably don’t need to back up every single file, but do use caution when excluding: Better to back up a file now than wish you...
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Cyndi’s List Genealogy Website Turns 20
In genealogy-years, the Cyndi’s List website is but a babe. But in internet-years, this popular family history website full of links is a venerable old-timer. In March, Cyndi’s List celebrates two decades as the premiere directory for online genealogy resources. If you’ve ever searched the web...
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Four Genealogy Freebies You’ll Find on Subscription Sites
In addition to free indexes and records, subscription sites may offer complimentary family history tools, though subscriptions may be required to get the most out of them: Access to online catalogs: Through AmericanAncestors, you can access the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s online catalog of its library collections...
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Four Must-Have Genealogy Apps
Want to translate foreign-language genealogy records? Listen to expert advice during your commute? Take research notes on all your devices or more efficiently scour the web for ancestors? These free apps can get the job done.
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8 Fun, Free Photo-Effects Websites
Now that you've taken a bunch of holiday snapshots or scanned that old shoebox of photos, it's time to have fun with the digital images.
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Clues to Identify Old Family Photos: Dentist’s Office
Finding clues in an old storefront photo of a dentist's office.
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Research Roadmap: Railroad Maps
Discover the paths your ancestors used to go west using railroad maps.
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The Great Migration Population Shift
A look at cities' shifting populations during the African-American Great Migration of 1910-1940.
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