I was looking at the marriage license application for some distant cousins, and it appeared that the uncle of the groom signed the document ...

The process of genealogical research involves searching for information, evaluating the reliability of that information, comparing it to oth...

One way to enliven a blog entry is with photography or artwork. Many entries on a genealogy blog will obviously be illustrated by photograp...

Marian at Roots and Rambles has an intriguing post. It appears Ancestry.com has changed its Terms of Service. From the comments to the po...

A Contrary View Note: I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. RSS - it stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's how bloggers ...

Neil Gaiman poses an interesting ethical dilemma on his blog. Gaiman is a fantasy and science fiction author. Some of his well-known work...

For the past couple years, in my genealogical travels around the web, and in surname messageboards on various genealogy sites, I’ve seen ref...

When you find something online that is useful to your genealogy research -- don't assume it will remain there to return to and review at...

A grocery store in the Czech Republic found the perfect family to promote its local delivery service. They were young, attractive, and the c...

One way to enliven a blog entry is with photography or artwork. Many entries on a genealogy blog will obviously be illustrated by photograp...

After reading 5 Bad Genealogy Sources , and reading the author's defense of himself here , and reading Chris Dunham's take here , I ...

LIFE magazine has released millions of their photographs on Google Images. Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stret...

Randy asks if he should be helping clients find living people . Yesterday, Cyndi of Cyndi's List , was saying that searching for live pe...

Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins Friday night at sunset. But for this post, I’m taking you back 108 years to 1899: “Jews Cele...

Note: I live in the US, and so this post is US-centered. Different laws apply in different countries. The recent discussions on copyright, ...

Several discussions on legal and ethical issues lately. As a newcomer to the genealogical community, I don't know how common this is. ...

Ancestry has removed their collection of web caches. The announcement is carefully written in neutral language as one would expect from a ...

I have a personal blog where I talk about everything that comes to my mind. This is what it looks like now . This is what it looked like in ...