As we get closer to the holidays, I start to think about where I want to focus my research in the coming year. It's nice to get together...

Well, I've finished writing my family stories for my book. I incorporated events that were happening at the time. This social history...

Now that I'm not busy with the details of the conference, it's time to outline what I want to do this coming year. I know it's not the...

Well, I'm back from the conference that I helped organize. It was a lot of work but well worth it. We had a hybrid conference: some...

I've been very busy helping to plan a conference for our society. I am really looking forward to it because we have a whole host of...

Well, I need to go back and check my research. I want to see if I made assumptions where I shouldn't have. Purely by accident, I found...

We're always looking for those elusive ancestors, aren't we? I've talked before about Hispanic wives. When their husbands passed away,...

I know that I've mentioned searching in city directories before. You've probably searched and made notes so that you can enter the...

Do you use maps in your genealogy research? They can either be real maps such as drawing lines between towns, cities or states or maps...

It's very tempting to add an ancestor to your family tree when you find him/her in someone else's tree. You get so excited that you are...