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4 Tips to Improve Your Ancestry Search Sessions

4 Tips to Improve Your Ancestry Search Sessions

Are Your Searches Turning Up Effective Results? A search is a search is a search, right? Not necessarily, especially when it comes to Ancestry.com’s massive database. If you want to increase your success in finding records of your ancestors, you’ll love these Ancestry search tricks and strategies from week 2...Read more
4 Tips 4 Improving Your Ancestry.com Searches

4 Tips 4 Improving Your Ancestry.com Searches

Are Your Searches Turning Up Effective Results? A search is a search is a search, right? Not necessarily, especially when it comes to Ancestry.com’s massive database. If you want to increase your success in finding records of your ancestors, you’ll love these Ancestry search tricks and strategies, straight from our...Read more
5 Things I Learned from the 2018 Fall Virtual Conference

5 Things I Learned from the 2018 Fall Virtual Conference

Sometimes it pays to know the right people. And I’m lucky enough to know Family Tree University’s Dean of Students and several of the FTU instructors. That allowed me to get a special sneak peek of the sessions at the upcoming 2018 Fall Virtual Conference, which runs Sept. 21 to...Read more
Ancestry.com Search Tricks and Strategies

Ancestry.com Search Tricks and Strategies

Are Your Searches Turning Up Effective Results? Ancestry.com has millions of records in over 37,700 record collections, so if you’re not getting the results you want when you search the site, why not try a different approach? In this week’s How to Maximize Ancestry.com workshop, we’ll be exploring the many...Read more
Can’t Find Your Ancestor? Genealogy Experts Suggest These 6 Tips

Can’t Find Your Ancestor? Genealogy Experts Suggest These 6 Tips

After awhile doing genealogy and working with experts through Family Tree Magazine, I’ve learned a few things. One of them is that if there’s an afterlife, our ancestors are in it snickering at our puny efforts to uncover their secrets. Another one is that some classic pro genealogy tips apply to...Read more
How I Created a Genealogy Timeline To Show My Grandfather's Life

How I Created a Genealogy Timeline To Show My Grandfather's Life

My grandfather Joe moved around a lot during his lifetime: Texas, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, back to Texas, elsewhere in Texas, Ohio, more places in Texas, various Ohio cities, South Dakota, Ohio again.  Timelines organize an ancestor’s or a family’s family tree data—dates, places of residence, jobs, historical events, children’s...Read more
Why FamilySearch Is Ending Microfilm Rental & How to Get Genealogy Records Now

Why FamilySearch Is Ending Microfilm Rental & How to Get Genealogy Records Now

Guest blog post by Family Tree Magazine Contributing Editor Sunny Jane Morton For 80 years, the FamilySearch Family History Library (FHL) has made its enormous stash of microfilmed genealogy records available to researchers through an inexpensive rental service through local FamilySearch Centers. That’s about to change: FamilySearch has announced that...Read more
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