Free to Be!
By Jan Edwards and Robin Foster Robin: “It does not take much for Jan to get me excited about something, but today her post made me...
The Pros and Cons of Hiring a Professional Genealogist
By Jan Edwards “Gosh, I have searched high and low; I have looked far and wide, and I just can’t find it! I’ve been looking for 40...
What to do If Nothing FITS, WORKS, or JIVES!
By Jan Edwards Are you a puzzle worker? You know the kind made out of cardboard cut into a zillion little pieces and you spend hours and...
To Blog or Not to Blog, That is the Question!
By Jan Edwards When Robin first talked to me about blogging, I wondered why in the heck she would want us to do that! I wondered if it...
The Timeline Exposes the Holes in Your History
By Robin Foster In Wills May Determine Slavery in the Family, I discussed how I had reached a point with researching Eliza, the mother of...
Wills May Determine Slavery in the Family
By Robin Foster In Finding Evidence of Slavery in the Family, we discussed how oral history and census records can give clues about...
Browsing Images at FamilySearch Made Easier
By Jan Edwards FamilySearch Records: https://familysearch.org/search Did you realize when searching collections on FamilySearch if it...
Why You May Be Missing Your Ancestor on the Census at Ancestry.com
By Jan Edwards When you search the census at Ancestry.com, you could miss finding your ancestor. The person you are looking for could...
What Does the Camera Mean on FamilySearch Historical Record Collections?
By Jan Edwards If a FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has a camera by the title, it means there are images. If this collection...
Key to Online Researching: Keep on Clicking!
By Jan Edwards Many collections we have access to have more than one image/page and many second images/pages are missed. Take the great...