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5 free genealogy websites for family history and ancestry research. Great for…

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One of the best ways of preserving your family history and to make the most of your research is to make a family tree album that can help you preserve the information for future generations. Making a family tree album can also help to bring all the family stories and pictures together so that your

WorldCat can be a valuable tool in your genealogy research. Discover how to use WorldCat to find family histories and other genealogy resources.

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Whether you realize it or not, you might be doing this one, unhelpful thing on your Ancestry family tree. Here's how to fix it so you can get better results with your DNA matching! #genealogy

There are many ways of finding out about an ancestor's parents, but one of the main ways is to use vital records such as birth and marriage certificates because marriage certificates normally include the father's name, and birth certificates both parents names unless the child was illegitimate. The first place to look to find an

This is the sixth and final post of my Family History Binder series. Click here to go back to part one. In each section of my binder, I placed copies of every document I had about each individual i…

It is wonderful to uncover the facts of an ancestor's life, but putting a face to a name is the most amazing discovery of all. Find out where to look for ancestor photos.

Dig deeper in your research to find hidden gems at these four free and underused genealogy websites.