Genealogy Tips and Hints

Melvin Collier on his Roots Revealed blog posted what he feels are 20 Do's and Don'ts of DNA, based on his experiences. These tips are an excellent summary of what to do and not do when using DNA to find your ancestors. Some of these are very basic such as not doing...

One of the The In-Depth Genealogist's Top 10 Posts of 2014 is article titled That Online Tree is NOT a Source!. In this article he states; "We all know we are supposed to cite our sources." They then go on to explain what a source is. Then they continue to state what...

Dick Eastman · December 26, 2014 · Books One of the greatest genealogy resources available today is the huge collection of digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. When I...

By Dick Eastman · Reproduced with permission from Eastman Online Genealogical Newsletter After earlier skirmishes, the American Revolutionary War started with the battle between British troops and local Massachusetts militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on...

For Family History Month, Ancestry.com compiled some of the many resources they offer for free into a convenient PDF that you can save to your desktop. The toolkit includes links to forms, helpful pages, educational tool, social networks and more. Now all your...