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If you think it's impossible to find your ancestors from the comfort of your armchair, think again! Whether you're a weekend genealogist with little time, have physical or monetary constraints that make it hard to get out of the house,...
More than 4 million requests for federal government records were made under the Freedom of Information Act in 2004, a new high for such requests in a single year. The majority of the increase was due to the 1.5 million...
A unique research trip for the serious genealogist with Irish roots, the 7-day Celtic Quest research trip to Dublin, Ireland, offers the opportunity to research at the repositories of your choosing. Professional genealogists Richard M. Doherty and Elizabeth Kelley Kersten,...
We all have ancestors we would swear were somehow skipped or overlooked by the census taker. It's more than likely that some of them were. More often, however, it's an indexing error that has us running in circles. When online...
According to Dick Eastman, another genealogy scam has hit the Web. Research-UK, owned by Ancestor Detectives of Essex, England, has been making fraudulent charges against the credit cards of customers and former customers. Many of their Web sites, including research-uk.com...
Of the 63% of Americans who go online, only 25% are over the age of 65, according to a 2004 survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But when the subject is researching family history and genealogy, the...
When surnames first came into popular use in 14th-century Europe, many people came to be identified by what they did for a living. A blacksmith named John, became John Smith. A man who made his living grinding flour from grain...
We've all heard family tales of a distant relative being the second cousin, twice removed of President "So-and-So." But is it really true? In reality, it's not all that unlikely. Hundreds of thousands of people, if they go back far...
Did your ancestors use bundling boards, courting cards or love spoons? Take a stroll back through romantic heritage with this timeline of romantic customs, dating rituals and tokens of love....
Larry Untiet of Spencer, Iowa, discovered a love story hidden inside the walls of his home. A bundle of almost 60 love letters from 1921, exchanged between Halbert Jenkins of Chicago and Florence Kirkpatrick of Spencer. Wanting to know whether...
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