Prior to the internet, researching immigrant ancestors was a difficult task. Genealogists had to travel to distant libraries and records offices. They’d send letters to international church archives and […]
FamilySearch.org has the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world. If you are researching family history and only using Ancestry.com or MyHeritage, you may be missing out […]
Doris and the Schuesslers of Los Angeles In September 2018, I received an email from Pam, asking if I’d help identify her biological grandmother. Pam’s mother, Doris was born in […]
Unless you’re 100% Native American, you probably have some distant cousins living across the ocean. Maybe some of them have taken a DNA test, but you won’t find out unless […]
The geographic location of your forefather’s birth may not be in the same country as it was known a century ago. Maybe he spoke German, but his birth record was […]
Figuring out how great-grandpa ended up in Pennsylvania may be as easy as asking some older family members. But if you have little knowledge of your family history, or are […]
“My dad told me I was left on the doorstep of Humboldt and Meinecke.” Lawrence* was trying to recall any additional details about his search for his biological parents. He […]
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