Yesterday's Lincoln (NE) Journal-Star newspaper ran a front page story about 33,000 boxes of Lancaster County documents in storage. ...

Technically, it's still the weekend since today is the legal holiday for Christmas. I had been contemplating this topic for a few days...

As Family History Month comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on what we did to further our family history research or m...

I believe that all genealogists have experienced the frustration of discovering information about people who have the same name as our ances...

Imagine, just for a moment, that you are the producer of the hit NBC television series, Who Do You Think You Are? What celebrities would yo...

While bouncing around the social networking sites, it occurred to me that the majority of my online genealogy colleagues are bloggers. We re...

As I'm making the final tweaks on a presentation on genealogy blogging, I've been wondering about what motivates genealogists to blo...

In recent weeks, I've been faced with a challenge that many of us face at some point. Growing Older. Downsizing. Moving On. It's t...

Recently I've been corresponding with some cousins from different lines of my family. Back in the 1950 and 1960s one of the women in the...

It's no secret that we genealogists are passionate, obsessive, driven, enthusiastic, dedicated .... I could go on. This weekend's ...

There seemed to be a common thread among the Twitter comments regarding last night's episode of Who Do You Think You Ar e featuring Gwyn...

Last month, Archives.com released this information regarding trends in online family history. There's not a lot of surprises in the tre...

This has been a rather amazing week for me in genealogy. It's been such an amazing week that I'm peddling as fast as I can to get ca...

Last week, I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of the comments that readers posted about  What To Do With Skeletons in the Closet . So I though...

Last evening's broadcast of the NBC hit genealogy show, Who Do You Think You Are, featured Kim Cattrall's search for her grandfather...