DNA testing kits used to provide very general information about where you might share a common DNA heritage with others from certain regions. Things have changed a lot in this field. 1. Where Are You From? An ancestry DNA test kit can tell you where your ancestors are...
Family Coat of Arms are not things of the past. New additions are made by the College of Arms which has been in charge of coat of arms for centuries. So what is the College of Arms? The College of Arms, also known as the College of Heralds, is a royal corporation...
Sometimes, searching for family history names can become drudgery. It can get so hard to just add one name to the family tree chart you’ve compiled. But it doesn’t have to be so hard. The Internet has made it so easy to collaborate family tree information...
There are lots of genealogy and family history resources out there that you can choose from, and I’ve tried many of them, but one of the resources that I keep coming back to is found at Ancestry.com. One reason is because Ancestry has both free and paid for...
Who do you think you are? A familiar question, one that is usually asked when you’re in trouble. However, this time, it takes a different meaning. Seven celebrities embark on a quest to answer the question, “Who do you think you are?” in a new...
If you’re like most people, either you or your family members have a blog (a blog is somewhat of a journal kept on the Internet just FYI). A family member recently commented to me that she wants to have her blog act as her journal, but she wants a way to print...
Every once in a while (perhaps more often than we would like) roadblocks, dead ends, and difficulty halt work on a particular line or record search. It can be quite frustrating, and you may find yourself reviewing sources and leads again and again but making no...
We’ve mentioned before that you can use Google Maps and Google Earth to map your family history, but now you can upload and map your family history in a big way with Ancestry.com’s new map tool. First, you’ll need to upload or enter some of your...
Many folks have an insatiable desire to research their roots to find out who they are and where they come from. Others, may be marginally interested if at all. Whether you consider yourself in one buck or the other, or something different. Few could argue that...
Footnote.com (a genealogy website) has introduced a feature that allows visitors to upload pictures and then highlight select areas of the picture and add a description or note. Multiple people can add notes to a picture. For example, say you have a scanned photo of...
