What's in a Name?
What IS in a name? We all remember learning this famous line in high school English, written by Shakespeare, uttered by Juliet Capulet,...
Finding the Fraimans
There is a photograph that is “famous” in my father’s family. We believe it was taken sometime in the late 19th century in the shtetl...
How to get past the indexed record
By Robin Foster If you use online databases to research at FamilySearch.org or Ancestry.com you may have come across indexed records. ...
Why Start Over?
By Jan Edwards When most of us began doing family history times were way different. We did not have access to online anything. Online...
What Can the Living Tell you?
By Jan Edwards When I first began Family History it was in March of 1994. For many when they say they have been doing family history for...
You Ancestor Did Not Just Disappear
Sometimes after you have searched and searched for an ancestor, it might seem like to you that they just disappeared when you cannot find...
Gleaning a Document
By Jan Edwards Just what does that mean? To glean means to extract information from various sources. It means to obtain, get, take, draw,...
Have You Been Through the Genealogy Portal?
By Jan Edwards Why do I need to go to a Family History Center Library when I have the interenet at home! Did you know that these...
