How to Archive Your Family History Documents, Photos, & Artifacts

How to Archive Your Family History Documents, Photos, & Artifacts

Do you know how to preserve your family artifacts? Today we’re talking about how to keep those family heirlooms, documents, bibles, newspapers and more…  safe and dry for future generations. Today’s guest is known as “The Archives Lady” her name is Melissa Barker. She is a Certified Archives Manager currently working as the Houston County, […]

19th Century Migration to America & The Railroads Westward Expansion

19th Century Migration to America & The Railroads Westward Expansion

In this special episode called “19th Century Migration to America & The Railroads Westward Expansion” learn about the impact of American migrations and the birth of new towns as a result of railroads westward expansion in the late 1800’s. Find out about what land records were created as a result of the railroads and how […]

FamilyTreeDNA (Overview & Family Finder, Part 1 of 3)

How to use FamilyTreeDNA Part 1, Family Finder

FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA.com) can be another great service for researching your family history by using their Family Finder, Y-DNA, Mitochondrial DNA services.  This is a three part series. In this (part one) episode, is an overview of FamilyTreeDNA and the Family Finder Service (the broad genetic family tree view). Please know that this is not sponsored […]

How to Share AncestryDNA® Test Results (Why Share DNA Test Results)

How to Share AncestryDNA® Test Results (Why Share DNA Test Results)

Learn how to share AncestryDNA test results and why you should share DNA test results with other persons. Have you thought about the legacy of your DNA test results? Watch this video to learn why. *** SHOW NOTES *** For instructions on how to share your AncestryDNA results with another person, you can download them […]

Watch the Restoration and Listen to the Story Behind the Image

Photo Restoration & Tittle Family Story

Every image has a story. Watch this old photo restoration using Photoshop CC and listen to the story of the Tittle Family Story as told by their descendant Debra Andrew. ??More information about this photo from Debra Andrew ““The family last name is Tittle. The man with the gun is James Francis “Frank” Tittle, the […]

Ancestry.com: Free New Holocaust Records (August 2019)

Watch Crista Cowan, the Barefoot Genealogist, explain about two new very important record sets have been released by Ancestry.com for free. This is in partnership between Ancestry and the Arolsen Archives, “…we are honored to announce that we have digitized millions of Holocaust and Nazi persecution related archives.” Ancestry reports in their blog.  These records […]

FamilySearch.org: Vital Records and Evidence

FamilySearch.org Vital Records Birth Marriage Death records

Learn how to find vital records and evidence of birth, marriage, and death records on FamilySearch.org for free. In this video I demonstrate two ways to search for vital records and other evidence of those vital events on FamilySearch.org.

Ancestry.com: Merging Duplicate People

Learn how to merge duplicate people in your family tree on Ancestry.com and learn how to avoid duplicating people in the first place. Ancestry.com is not a sponsor of this video. Click the image to go to the video.