In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about the family history challenge of researching your ancestors’ lives when they were children... (Read More)
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary provides another fun quiz to test your knowledge of terms used in old newspapers to describe our ancestors’ occupations—and then provides illustrated definitions of those terms. An earlier blog article of mine entitled “Job... (Read More)
An article with a genealogy search tip: expand the geographic reach of your searches to find information about your ancestors in unexpected places... (Read More)
In this article, Scott Phillips hears some interesting family stories from his 93-year-old mother and digs into old newspapers to learn more... (Read More)
Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a lunch menu from the Titanic and talks about the massive quantities of food carried and served on that immense ship... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak provides a quiz to test your knowledge of terms used in old newspapers for our female ancestors’ occupations... (Read More)
In this article, Scott Phillips explains how “Blue Laws” turned Sundays into very special family days during his childhood... (Read More)
I love it that the Irish Nation newspaper routinely published lists of all arriving passengers from Ireland. These lists gave the names of the passengers, where they were from in Ireland, and where their destination was in the United States. This is an excellent resource to find what often can be a very difficult... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena writes about the challenge of locating your ancestor’s burial place—and explains how to find out if a cemetery has been moved. Most genealogy articles written about cemeteries focus on how to find your... (Read More)
