Immigration and Naturalization Records: Tracing Ancestors Across Borders | AF-1328
A passenger list may name a relative left behind. A citizenship petition may give you the hometown you have been trying to find. Immigration and naturalization records can add those details to a famil...
20 Loka 14min
What Happens When New Evidence Changes What I Thought I Knew? | AF-1327
There's a part of genealogy that I think is harder than reaching a conclusion in the first place: changing one. Once I've worked on a person for a while, the dates, places, relationships, and records ...
16 Loka 11min
How Much of My Family Tree Depends on My Own Judgment? | AF-1326
The longer I work in genealogy, the more I realize something about family tree research: a family tree isn't simply something I find. I build it. Records give me names, dates, places, relationships, o...
14 Loka 9min
Columbus Day Makes Me Rethink the Word "First" | AF-1325
Columbus Day and genealogy make me think about one small word with a big meaning: first. The first ancestor to come to America. The first family to settle in a county. Or the first name we can prove o...
12 Loka 7min
Whatever Happened to You're Welcome? | AF-1324
I say "thank you." Someone answers, "No problem." The exchange is over in a second, but lately I've been thinking about those two words. Whatever happened to "you're welcome"? My curiosity about the h...
9 Loka 9min
When Was the Last Time You Thanked Your Genealogy Librarian? | AF-1323
I was thinking recently about all the libraries I have visited over the years while doing genealogy research. Some had large genealogy departments. Others had a small genealogy or local history room t...
7 Loka 5min
What My German Research Changed About the Way I Do Genealogy | AF-1322
German genealogy changed the way I research. I didn't plan on changing anything. At first, I was simply trying to follow another branch of my family tree, but I soon found that some of the habits that...
2 Loka 8min
Why Do Some Ancestors Feel Closer Than Others? | AF-1321
A photograph can change things quickly. Until then, I may know a person only through census entries, deeds, handwritten records, or a name on a family tree. Then I see a face. I notice the eyes, the c...
1 Loka 7min
