One of the essential items in doing genealogy is knowing the location where your ancestor lived. This is not always as easy as it sounds.
Genealogy at A Glance publications offer a series of fact sheets designed to allow family historians a quick understanding of the fundamentals of genealogy.
In April 2019, 34 members of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas went on a civil rights pilgrimage through Mississippi and Alabama.
My fascination with DNA began when I took my first DNA test as a participant in the National Geographic Human Genome Project in 2005.
Have you ever noticed a historical marker and wondered more about the person named in it? Or wondered how a local landmark or local school got its name?
The political leanings and beliefs of our ancestors can be interesting to study – and perhaps unexpectedly so.
In 2011, I joined 3000 others in Salt Lake City for the first RootsTech conference.
Genealogy can be approached in a variety of ways. Some seek to identify as many of their fore-bears as possible.
A detailed tutorial on borrowing books online using the Internet Archive, WorldCat, and the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.
A fun and informative tool on the Texas General Land Office website is the Texas Hidden History map viewer.
March 15, 2025
