Ancestral Findings

Walt Disney is a well-known American cultural icon, whose movies and theme parks are famous around the world. While his creative genius is respected and his projects are known, not much is ever said a...

17 Aug 202114min

In instances where you can't find a death certificate for a particular ancestor, there are other options to get the information you need. One of these options, which is a truly excellent one, is in ob...

12 Aug 20214min

Death certificates are one of the three basic types of vital records used in beginning genealogy research, along with birth and marriage records. The amount of information you will find on a death cer...

10 Aug 20214min

There are times when you will not find an official birth record for a person. This could be because one never existed, or that it was lost to time. If you cannot find a birth record, there are alterna...

5 Aug 20214min

One source of birth records that you might not have considered is the family Bible. These were popular in the 1700s and 1800s and were Bibles with blank pages for recording birth, death, and marriage ...

3 Aug 20214min

The Tenth Amendment is the last amendment in the Bill of Rights. It makes it clear that the powers of the Federal government are limited to only what is particularly given to it in the Constitution. I...

30 Jul 20214min

The Ninth Amendment states that rights that are not listed in the Bill of Rights still exist, and are reserved to the people. But, this leaves a whole host of questions open about what those unlisted ...

29 Jul 20215min

If you are searching for a birth record for an ancestor, you might not find one if official birth registration was not required at the time and in the place they were born. However, you will likely co...

26 Jul 20213min