GenWeekly reports “Postcards may be a great way to enhance - and enlighten - your family history”, something I’ve been working on for a while.
Dedicated to helping researchers appreciate and explore the social history aspect of their own genealogy, Gena Philipbert-Ortega, in her article, Using Postcards to Illustrate your Family History, once again provides us [...]

As the writer, editor, cook, and bottle washer of several blogs, starting a family history blog was easy for me. What wasn’t easy was my family’s understanding what our family history blog would contain. If I want your family’s help on your family history blog, you have to help them understand what information goes into [...]

I’m still struggling to learn about how The Master Genealogist (TMG) genealogy research and family history software program works. It’s not for the casual family history researcher. It is for the very serious genealogist, determined to dig into all the details of their family’s history and report on it accurately and comprehensively.
A problem I had [...]

Going through my father’s papers, I found many of his resumes, going back decades. The most recent ones written in the past 25 years were resumes I helped him put together. Before that, my mother did them for him. He was rather useless in that area.
At first I stuffed them in a file [...]

The Genealogy Journey offers “Historic Family Papers and Photos: Store Them Right or Consider Donating Them” offers tips and links to resources and techniques on how to protect, preserve, and donate your family history papers and photographs.
Please! As a family member who has lost so many precious family records, photographs, and heirlooms to fire, neglect, [...]

Genealogy Today has an article series on scanning old photographs with part one covering basic scanning information. Part two will be out soon.
Among the basics are two issues that confront most new computer users when it comes to scanning photographs and graphics: size and quality.
When you scan an old photo, you create an image file. [...]

It doesn’t matter how old you are, it is never too early or too late to start researching your family tree.
As a precious example, Krystle, a 20ish year old student, made a chart of her family tree and posted it on her Live Journal blog, tracking her family back at least 3 generations.
You [...]

In an interesting article on The Genealogy Clinic, Genealogy Education blog offers an explanation of a Genealogy Clinic:
A clinic is one way to follow up a lecture by providing individual consultations on individual research problems. Let’s say that I am coming to your community to do a one-day workshop…I ask the client to come prepared [...]

Thinking of giving the gift of DNA testing to family members this year? Giving them the joy of researching their ancestors through their blood lines? Genetics and Health offers a list of the prices for DNA testing on the CNA Ancestry Project.
The cheapset male 20 marker test is $119 USD and the full blown package [...]

Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter has helped me again with “Placed in Canada”, helping all of us researching online maps of towns and communities in Canada find them.
Have you looked for online maps of towns or other named places in Canada? You may have found that the most popular Canadian mapping site, “Geographical Names of Canada,” [...]