Category: Intermediate
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We recently toured the “Anne Frank House” exhibit visiting the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It was an amazing exhibit, very well curated, showing the history of the family of Otto and Edith Frank before the war. Otto was the only member of the 8 who hid in the Annex who survives…
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When you decide you want help with your genealogy research, do yourself a favor and hire a professional. You could of course pay a friend to do some research, but here are some reasons to hire a professional. If your research concerns ancestors from German-speaking lands or from the former Russian Empire (today Poland, Estonia,…
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An important part of doing genealogy, for those who love doing it, is knowing what kinds of records are possible and what they might tell us. The following table is a list of the most important types of records we use for research in the United States. I listed them in the rank order I…
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As my mother, an avid genealogist, taught me when I was young: every person needs a name, a date and a place. I touched on names here, and places here, so today’s contribution is about dates. How dates were recorded on documents was a function of what kind of record was being kept, what kind…
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When you look at a person entry on the shared tree in FamilySearch, sometimes you see a blue box. These are under the category of Research Help and are called record hints (or sometimes just blue hints). These are potential matches from the millions of indexed records in FamilySearch’s collections. They hire programmers to write…