by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 24, 2025
This article is also posted by Price Genealogy. A good genealogist will use various record types in researching their ancestors, and this includes records created around a person’s death. What could be spookier than death records this Halloween? Death records in...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 17, 2025
This article is also posted on GenealogyBank. When a person dies, their possessions and property go to their relatives. The probate process is the legal proceedings through which this is accomplished, and it leaves behind a paper trail. By following the probate paper...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 10, 2025
This blog is also posted on GenealogyBank. Cemeteries are one of the many spooky things associated with Halloween, to the pleasure of genealogists. For family historians, a cemetery is a source of genealogical information more so than a place for scares. If a cemetery...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 3, 2025
Different periods of U.S. history present various challenges. Pre-1850 The first U.S. census to name every household member, not just the head, was 1850. Most places did not have civil registration until later. This is not a time period where you can easily conduct...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Sep 26, 2025
This blog is also posted by GenealogyBank Death certificates hold a wealth of information for family historians, and should be one of the key documents in a genealogist’s search. Photo: Eddie August Schneider’s (1911-1940) death certificate, issued in New York....
