Need a fun activity to help your youth learn to research census records?  “Finding Franklin” gives them the opportunity to discover the wealth of information that can be found in  a census. Questions about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States lead the youth to find specifics about his family and occupation over a span […]

  The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah is the largest of its kind in the world. Chances are, if you love searching for your family, you’ll want to pay a visit to this amazing library.  For information on location, parking, classes, hours, and tips, here is your one stop web page: Family History […]

Have you created your whole family tree in Ancestry.com or another system and now you want to try using FamilySearch.org? How do you move your tree over to FamilySearch.org? There are two ways – one without a GEDCOM file and one with. First, you should know that FamilySearch Family Tree is a collaborative tree. We […]

One of the best features on Family Tree is the capability to create a source for your ancestor.  Although FamilySearch has billions of records in their database, you are still going to find records on other websites, in books, and in your paper files that you will want to add to the record of your […]

Place names change over time as the boundaries and jurisdictions are modified. Genealogists should use the place name as it existed at the time of the event. For example, the location of a family living in the same house in Preston for 40 years could be recorded at different times as: Preston, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States (1880) Preston, Oneida, Idaho, United States […]