When a family historian is looking at ancestral documents it is important to give consideration to the other names one finds in the document...

A "True Certification of Facts" may not always be certifying what you think. This is a current Missouri Birth Certification form...

Following the guidance at Blood and Frogs , I have been ordering several batches of Naturalization Records from the National Archives (NARA)...

I sense a meme... Write as you have never written before at DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog The Ancestral Golden Arches of Genealogy at G...

This entry has been percolating in my mind for a few weeks. In the first episode of Who Do You Think They Are viewers were shown that it i...

Looking over the notes a cousin had made in her research on a 19th century date of death, I saw a Hebrew date (Adar 18) and civil date (Feb...

It bears repeating - the information on the census isn't always correct. One common source for inaccuracies is when the census taker di...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. My maternal grandmother was marrie...

I have found several creative birth announcements in my grandparents' collections, and below is one of my favorites, with the identifyin...

A year ago I wrote a summary of what I had spent retrieving documents. One section was devoted to the UK General Register Office, from whom...

Two months ago I wrote about finding a few Texas death records at FamilySearch's new record search. In particular, Everett Van Every...

The Genealogue mentions that Ancestry has doubled the size of its Newspaper Archives. (and access to the newspapers is free until June 19t...

Declarations of Intent to become a citizen are a good source of genealogical information, if your ancestor went through the process after Se...

Sam was the brother of my grandmother, Myrtle Van Every Deutsch. We (me, my mother, and her sister) didn't know too much about him. Fa...

The microfilm I ordered from the Family History Library, which was supposed to contain the death certificate for my great grandfather, Melv...

There were a few items new at Ancestry this week for the state of Missouri that caught my attention. Missouri Still Birth and Miscellaneous...

For awhile I assumed my great-grandfather, Melvin Van Every, died in Texas. Then I was reading something his daughter, Minnie, wrote, and r...

Jackson County Missouri Marriage Index/Certificates Jackson County is home to Kansas City, MO. This marriage index is completely up-to-date....

Since I have a 3-day free trial, my goal was to find everything I could possibly find on Footnote , and then cancel my subscription before t...

The month of December is one of reflection and as part of the final days, and as an extension of my thoughts back in October , I have consid...