Genealogy Gold by Ancestral Findings

I deleted a sentence the other day because I realized I had gone farther than the records allowed. The sentence fit nicely with the story I was putting together, and based on everything I knew about t...

28 Sep 8min

I have always enjoyed The Goonies. It has everything I want in a fun adventure movie: an old treasure map, secret passages, booby traps, criminals, a pirate ship, and a group of kids who decide that t...

23 Sep 11min

It is time for another Ancestral Findings free book giveaway. This month, I am giving away a copy of Mason: A Man with No Beginning by Timothy Mulgrew. This true family story combines genealogy, World...

19 Sep 6min

I spend a great deal of time looking for things people left behind. Sometimes it is something important, such as a will, a family Bible, or a letter that explains a relationship. Other times it is muc...

18 Sep 7min

I caught myself doing something recently that I have probably done many times without thinking. I found a record I had been searching for, downloaded it, named the file, put it where it belonged, and ...

16 Sep 5min

When I am working on the Moneymaker side of my family in Virginia, there is always a pull to keep going backward. Find the parents, then their parents, then see whether another generation is waiting i...

14 Sep 7min

Every once in a while, I look at someone in a family tree and realize I have done a pretty good job documenting them. I have birth, marriage, and census records, children, an occupation, and a death d...

12 Sep 7min

Most family research begins with records created around major events such as births, marriages, deaths, land purchases, and military service. A request to build or repair a road may seem far removed f...

10 Sep 14min