by Katie Rebecca Garner | Nov 1, 2025
Newspapers are the ancestors of Facebook. Our ancestors used newspapers to keep up with the world around them, much like we use social media today. Newspapers contain political, sports, and social news of their day. Ads showcase the products and services being sold at...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 24, 2025
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 research Death records are the only record type with...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 17, 2025
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 trail left by your ancestors, you can learn a...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 10, 2025
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 scares a genealogist, it’s for different...
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...
