It’s an amazing feeling to find your ancestors on passenger lists and learn when they arrived. Here are 11 free websites with ship lists to search for your family.
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Obituaries are an essential resource in your genealogy toolkit. They’re an amazing source of family history info.
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In honor of the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month, I wanted to share some free genealogy websites. Hispanic genealogy is a big topic that covers many countries and regions, so I tried to gather resources that reflect that.
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What are your weekend plans? Here’s some links I enjoyed over the week for you!
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Did your ancestor work for the railroad? If so, they may have a file with the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. These files can have genealogy gold inside.
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If you’re lucky enough to have old letters from your family passed down to you, you might be wondering how to preserve them. Fortunately, preserving old letters is pretty straightforward and you don’t have to break the bank to keep them safe.
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What are your plans for the weekend? I’ll be searching probate records and requesting divorce papers for my great grandmother. Here are some links I liked over the week!
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More Black genealogy resources are coming online as records get digitized. Here’s 10 resources to help your search.
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I had an exciting week and hope you had a great week also. Here’s some links to start off the weekend!
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Mexican civil registration records are an essential, easy to access resource for Mexican genealogy research.
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These French Canadian genealogy books are essential reading to get you started on your research.
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Here’s a few links I liked this week to start off your weekend!
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If you have an ancestor who fought in the Civil War, pension records are an amazing source of information for your family tree.
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Are you making this mistake with online family trees? Here’s some best practices to using public family trees so you can avoid problems later.
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Happy Friday! Here’s some fun links from the week!
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Chances are you have at least some paper copies of your genealogy records. There are two basic systems for organizing your paper files – file folders and binders. This post will go over how to get started organizing your genealogy papers into binders.
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Genealogy research logs are essential to keeping your genealogy organized. They help make sure you maximize your research time and don’t duplicate the work you’ve already done.
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Family Tree is a British magazine that has beginner guides to in-depth resources for experienced genealogists.
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LGBT genealogy research can pose some challenges. How do we go about identifying our LGBTQ ancestors, who may have lived at a time when homosexuality was illegal, or at the very least, looked down upon? How can we uncover their stories and honor their voices and experiences?
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Someone not appearing on a census is a common issue. There are a lot of reasons why you can’t find your ancestor, but there are strategies you can use to uncover them.
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