PREMIERE
“FIND MY FAMILY,” A HEARTWARMING NEW SERIES THAT
BRINGS FAMILIES TOGETHER, PREMIERES MONDAY, NOV. 23
From the producer of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” comes the highly anticipated “Find My Family,” a program with one simple mission — to bring families back together. With the help of a dedicated team of researchers, hosts Tim Green and Lisa Joyner [...]

AJT of Philadelphia, PA asks…

“I’ve been looking all over for a place that has the 1890 Census records, but I can’t find any.  Why not?  Where can I look?”

This is probably one of the most common questions asked. Basically, you are not going crazy. For the most part, they don’t exist.
On the afternoon of [...]

As a genealogist. we’ve all heard the standard response “I don’t know anything about our family” when asked if someone can shed some light on the family tree.  When you dig a little deeper with them, the disclose that they have a bible with about 50 names and dates in it.
People don’t know what we are looking [...]

Today’s computer’s and technology makes it easy to record, edit and publish interviews with relatives from around the world without you having to travel all over the place to get them.  Although this article will focus on a Macintosh solution, the same principals can be applied to Windows.  You just need to find the proper [...]

Last week, while listening to one of the many genealogy podcasts I subscribe to, I heard about an organization called “Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness” (RAOGK.org). I decided to investigate. RAOGK volunteers agree to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area as an act of kindness. RAOGK [...]

Last week, Lisa Louise Cook of the Genealogy Gems Podast released a wonderful video in the premium section of her web site which explains how to create your own Google Gadget using a text editor tool provided by Google.
This got me thinking.  So I spent a few minutes reading about the Google Gadgets API and [...]

How do you store all those digitized photos, scanned documents, research notes and family tree data? As rich media (photos, video, movies, music) continues to devour your storage capacity of your local hard drive, you need a solution that allows you to easily manage, protect, and scale storage for your PC or Mac. As [...]

Now, before we get started, a word about the title.  I am calling the new Google News Archives Search, a “Genealogists Dream” because of what I expect it to become… not for what it is today.  For today, it pretty darn good.  But if Google does what it has done with many other projects, it could become [...]