Have You Checked Your Genealogy Queries Lately?
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend has given many genealogy buffs some well deserved web surfing time. It’s the perfect opportunity to check on those long-lost queries posted to various forums years ago, especially since email addresses are likely different, and any follow-up messages have not found their way to you.
If you posted queries to message boards like Ancestry, RootsWeb, GenForum, Cousin Connect, or the many others available online, you can utilize their search features to locate your posts, and find out if you missed any responses. You might even try “googling” your ancestor’s names, which many FULL STORY »

Finding details on the everyday lives of our ancestors is always a bonus to genealogy research. Hopefully they had more happy times than tragedies, but if tales have been passed down about bad times, the website GenDisasters.com might prove worth a visit.
The patience of the genealogist is something to admire. They undertake years of careful research, type it all up, add in the many preserved precious family photos collected from aunts and uncles near and far, and print it all out to share with others. So how do you reward this kind of dedication from which the entire family reaps the rewards?
The holidays are harvest time for family genealogists. By necessity, they must take advantage of relatives gathered for good food and gift swapping, and get them talking about family history. So, if you missed the chance to mingle with relatives on Thanksgiving, you’ll get another chance very soon when Christmas rolls around.
Local and county histories have been published across the country for well over 100 years. Just imagine all the names they contain! Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to search through them all from one convenient location?
The internet’s largest genealogical resource is on another roll. Ancestry.com has added one database after another (at last count, there were 24,000) since its debut on the web, and now one of its latest projects is also growing by leaps and bounds.
Genealogy networking is all the rage on the internet, and one fast-growing website in that genre is announcing its latest improvements.
Newspaper research is one of the most important areas of interest for genealogists, and thanks to a pair of database-rich websites, this kind of research might be made a lot easier.
Many genealogists rely on their computers to organize all of their family tree research. Some of them will want to make note of updates announced this week for two popular genealogy software programs.