Places to Start a Genealogy Search

Genealogy Research: Starting a Genealogy Search for FreeIf you’re just beginning your genealogy search you’ve no doubt heard that the vast resources available to you online are going to be your best option. There are premium genealogy sites that charge so that you can access their information, but there are also free ones. These free [...]

Free Genealogy Databases Can Still Be Found

Once you make the decision to build your family tree, you’re bound to wonder where the information is going to come from. How do you find what you need to know to research your own family history and how much is all of this going to cost. To the question of, are there still free [...]

Family Tree Scrapbooking and The Intentional Family Schism

If you’ve been around the genealogy world for a while, you may have noticed how family tree scrapbooking is the next, new level beyond simply piecing together the standard family diagram. After investing the time and money to pull together all the necessary documents to verify your results with confidence, now what? Well, people are [...]

Family Tree Templates

If you want to create your family tree, but do not know where to start, family tree templates can get you started on your genealogical adventure. By giving you a pre-designed family tree that you can fill in, you can easily assemble your chart of lineage and, while doing so, learn the proper format for [...]

The Importance of Genealogy

You may think you know what genealogy is, but many individuals confuse it with the closely related term “family history.” Genealogy is the study of ancestry and descendants. The study of genealogy pertains only to who is a member of a specific family and who these family members are related to.Family history, though, is the [...]

Genealogy Popularity

Everyone describes genealogy as being an extremely popular hobby, up there with gardening and stamp and coin collecting. Many people are interested in the history of their families.The increasing popularity of family history brought this trend to national attention in 1995. In 1995, some 113 million adults in the US, or four out of ten [...]