Case Study: Identifying Woman’s Parents with a Delayed Birth Record Premium
Contributing Editor Sunny Morton explains how she used collateral research technique and a delayed birth record to identify an ancestor’s parents—who were also her neighbors.
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Documenting your own memories can be a great tool for furthering your family history research. Author Sunny Morton shares three tips to help you recall your past.
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Wistful for the better days of yore, when life was simple and people were wholesome? It turns out our ancestors didn't have it that good, as these tales of holidays past can attest.
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Check out readers' stories from their parents about the "Good Old Days."
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The 1919 house where Roots author Alex Haley said he first heard stories of his family's African heritage has become a museum.
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Footnote Pages let you memorialize loved ones with stories and photos.
Read MoreAncestorNews: Keeping the Stories Alive Premium
On Friday, my 86-year-old aunt Lu suffered what the doctors termed a catastrophic stroke. As I write this column, I'm sitting by her bed in the intensive care unit, waiting for her to be transferred to hospice. Odd, isn't it, that at a time like this, my thoughts turn...
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Have you ever considered that a tree's root system is much more extensive than its combined trunk, branches and leaves? The same is true of your family tree: You have more ancestors than you have parents, siblings and children. Discovering your family roots means digging into the past and uncovering those ancestors—solving the puzzles of
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AncestorNews readers share stories of their own family heirlooms.
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