Category: Genealogy Tools
Tools of the trade, ranging from software or websites to critical thinking and research technniques.
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The tools we have for tracking what we know (or think we know) about our ancestors can be great – but when we don’t have information that can be fully supported with evidence, adding a new hypothetical relationship can be tricky. I may have a lead on a newly identified sister for my Witter family,…
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Another case of chasing the records for a family that turns out not to be who I was looking for. But this time, I am left with a tiny sliver of progress, too!
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Sometimes the story is as much about the process as it is about the people. And a good soundtrack, too.
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A look at FamilySearch.org as part of your online family history eco-system. Part of the “Harmonizing Across Multiple Platforms” series.
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A look at Find-A-Grave as part of your online family history eco-system. Part of the Harmonizing Across Multiple Platforms series.
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I’m going to tell you some tips for making online tools work for you, but first, some insights about making YOU work better for you!
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I found My Sixteen, and Her Sixteen – now what about Their Sixteens? I’ve written at length about how helpful it was to focus on finding my Sixteen great-great-grandparents when I was starting out. But now I’m a seasoned (pronounced: “old”) amateur researcher with both My Sixteen and my wife’s Sixteen documented in 32 WikiTree…
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Tips and Tricks for stirring up clues Even if you’re new to genealogy, you have probably already run across somebody posting a warning not to trust information from various common sources: And yet, people who are just starting on their family history journey are also bombarded with advice to look for clues in all of…
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There’s a whole mess of kin I tell my fellow researchers that I use this Substack newsletter as a family history tool, but what does that mean? Spotting the Gaps The main function of the newsletter is to share stories about my research. I don’t use Substack to search records or manage the tree, but…
Mightier Acorns 