Genealogy Resources That May Tell Your Ancestor's Birth
By, Robin Foster Civil registrations for births is only one way you may discover the date or place of birth of your ancestor. You will...
Facebook Groups: Genealogy on Steriods!
By Robin Foster Are you a member of a Facebook group that is extremely active? Well, congratulations! Those of us who are rabid about...
Unexpected Genealogy Records: Guardianship
By Robin Foster Guardianship records are one of the unexpected but not so uncommon records that you may discover while searching probate...
Laws and Provisions Can Lead to Genealogical Records
By Robin Foster Recently, I went to the Greenwood County, SC Probate Office where I noticed a big red book left out that had not been put...
Getting an Answer to Your Genealogy Research Question
By Robin Foster Many places like Genealogy! Just Ask! can help you get answers to your genealogy research questions. This does not work...
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 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...
Finding Evidence of Slavery in the Family
By Robin Foster Photograph taken by Robin Foster Have you ever wondered how to determine if there was an enslaved person or a slaveholder...
Genealogy in Balance Versus Juggling
Robin Foster standing in front of the grave of grandmother, Ora Foster (1899-1971), in Mount Glenwood Cemetery, Illinois. By Robin Foster...
