Illustration: a drawing of detective Sherlock Holmes

Genealogy Mystery: Where’s Her Brother Tom?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on October 19, 2016

An article about doing genealogy research to add a member to your family tree that you hadn’t heard of before... (Read More)

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Genealogy 101: #1 Gather What You Know

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on October 18, 2016

In this article – part of an “Introduction to Genealogy” series – Gena Philibert-Ortega discusses some basic aspects of doing family history research... (Read More)

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Genealogy Tip: Always Dig Deeper

By Thomas Jay Kemp on October 14, 2016

An article providing genealogy search tips about taking the clues found in one record and using them to find more family history information... (Read More)

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3 Genealogy Tips for Cemetery Research

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on October 7, 2016

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega provides three genealogy tips for researching cemeteries that she learned while writing a book on cemeteries... (Read More)

Painting: "Washington Crossing the Delaware," by Emanuel Leutze. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Wikimedia Commons.

Multiple Newspaper Articles about Revolutionary War Ancestor

By Thomas Jay Kemp on September 29, 2016

An article about finding newspaper articles about your Revolutionary War ancestors in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)

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Genealogy Tip: Research Family Reunions in Old Newspapers

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on September 28, 2016

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega shows how reunion articles in old newspapers can help you fill in some spaces on your family tree... (Read More)