Genealogy Tips and Hints

From Dick Eastmans's Onlie Genealogy Newsletter 2 Sept, 2015 The following announcement was written by the folks at Ancestry.com. Please note that the new collection will be available FREE of charge for the next few days: More than 170 million documents from 1668-2005...

Learning about the history and what resources are available for the places your ancestor lived can give your research a solid boost. The Ancestry.com State Research Guide series includes historical background, a chronology, helpful information on census and vital...

Office Lens was launched on Windows Phone over a year ago and is now available as an app for Apple and Android devices. Office Lens is a handy capture app that turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner. It works with OneNote and OneDrive so you'll never lose a scan....

At the July 2015 Daytime meeting Walter Wood spoke on DNA for Genealogy. He covered the three main DNA tests and the three companies providing DNA testing for genealogists. He also spoke on his own experiences with DNA testing and how it helped advance one of the...

The FamilySearch regional research groups on Facebook were created to be collaborative environments where individuals researching the same general location could help one another reach their family history goals through asking and answering questions, sharing helpful...

What if you could store information about a file such as a description, the author, keywords, etc., and associate it with the file so it is always available? What if you could easily search on your computer for all photos with a certain person in them? By using a...

The blog Genea-Musings recently published an article linking to a spreadsheet someone had complied containing links to newspaper archives. This spreadsheet has over 13,000 collections, mainly from Genealogy Bank, Newspapers.com, Newspaperarchive.com, Ancestry.com, Old...

I came across an interesting article today on the website City Lab (from The Atlantic magazine) about Sanborn Maps. The article is titled Accidental Revelations of Sanborn Maps: How maps created for fire insurers show the evolution of cities. Although the article is...

From Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter May 20, 2015. Used by permission. There's a lot more you can do with Google than just searching the entire Internet. For instance, you can search for web pages added to Google's indexes within a range of dates. The most...