Family history is something that everyone shares. As you go back through your family tree, you will find saints and sinners. You may find out secrets no one knew before. But, most of all, you will likely learn a great…
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Family history has undergone a transformation in the past couple of decades due to the emergence of the Internet and the billions of records now available online. For the dedicated family historian, the need to gather and organize family information…
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Family history, or genealogy, is a pastime enjoyed by millions of people around the world. For the person doing the research, it can be fun to find a new ancestor or to solve a long standing problem. Some ancestors left…
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Research into family history can become challenging when you find an ancestor’s last name has apparently changed. You may have found generations after left plenty of records with the surname you know. Then you hit an ancestor who apparently left…
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Finding female ancestors poses its own challenges, especially as you get further back in time. In earlier generations, it can be difficult to figure out what her maiden name was. In many Western countries, when a woman married, she took…
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Family history offers you the opportunity to explore how your ancestors fit into the world around them. You can find all sorts of information on your family today through sites like Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org. Census records are one commonly used…
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Census records offer us a snapshot glimpse into the lives of our ancestors. Each census entry is a record of information as it was known at the moment the census taker wrote it down. This information can give us names…
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