Wills, Estates & Women’s Rights for Genealogy

Wills, probate and estate records can be the best family history records you ever find. Additionally, understanding your female ancestors rights with regard to land ownership, dower rights, and their place in society at the time, can help you know how to find women in the records to help with your family tree. In this […]

1870’s Marriage Certificate Found in Thrift Shop: The Whole Story

1870’s Marriage Certificate Found in Thrift Shop: The Whole Story

National media picked up this family history story about the 1870’s marriage certificate that was found in the back of a painting in a thrift shop. I’m the one who solved the mystery of this old marriage certificate. In this episode, I’m going to share with you the whole story, how I did the genealogy […]

Freedmen’s Bureau Records Now on Ancestry

Freedmen's Bureau Records on Ancestry

EXTRA EXTRA – NEW TODAY! Ancestry has announced the addition of the Freedmen’s Bureau and Freedman Bank Records available for free!  This is 3.5 million records that is a huge benefit for those researching their African American and poor or indigent white ancestors in the post Civil War era.  The Freedmen’s Bureau created numerous records […]

Best 5 Online Resources for Genealogy

Here are my top 5 best genealogy resources for 2021. Also, I’ll show you my favorite tips and tricks for these online family history research companies.

U.S. Military Records

Learn about where to find U.S. Military Records, most of which are free to search. We’ll explore Military Records for your genealogy research on Ancestry, FamilySearch, Fold3, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). 

Guide to FamilySearch

Genealogy TV Guide to FamilySearch

  In this Users Guide to FamilySearch, we’ll talk about some tricks when using FamilySearch. Here I share my top 5 best practices when using FamilySearch.

Tiny Tip Tuesday! Hints vs Card Catalog on Ancestry

What day is today? It’s TINY TIP TUESDAY! Did you know that the hints on Ancestry are not all the records available there? In this Tiny Tip Tuesday episode, I’ll show you how to find all the records available for your ancestors on Ancestry.com.

How to Add Video to Your Ancestry Tree

Learn how you can add video to an ancestors profile on Ancestry.com. Preserving film and video in your family tree is important. There are several tricks I’ll show you so you can share your family’s videos with others to help preserve those videos and old films for future generations. Everyone has old films and videos […]