Tips, tricks, and ideas about recording the past so future generations can understand their family history. Learn about great preservation methods, web links, and how to have fun creating your family’s history.
Many of us want to connect our ancestry to Pilgrims, royalty, Revolutionary figures, or pop culture legends. But the truth is, likely, we’re just descended from ordinary people.
Ready to set some great 2018 goals? If you don’t have any for family history yet, we’ve got a couple of ideas for your New Year’s resolutions.
Some of these are common questions you’d expect from family history. In other words, they’re the easy ways to get names, dates, and places. But there’s so much more to family history than just the basics!
“Descendants” refers to anyone who has a specific person as an ancestor. This is regardless of the physical distance or the number of generations between the two. But this can cover more than blood, and there’s an important distinction to make between direct and indirect descendants.
Since the arrival of the Mayflower is such a large event in the history of the United States, a lot of modern Americans want to find a genealogical connection. And many of them do! Researchers estimate that there are are over 35 million direct descendants of the Mayflower passengers.
In our global family, there are many, many ways to celebrate the changing of seasons, particularly the harvest.
Finding ancestors who fought, spied, or otherwise participated is exciting and makes a great story. But searching for them is not always as easy as simply building your family tree back to the 1770s.
If you’re a beginner in genealogy, you might not get far if you don’t understand the terms! Understanding what different genealogy terms mean can help you build your family tree.