Copyright issues sometimes plague genealogists and the family historian. This is especially true if we plan to publish our stories and res...

Earlier this month, I posted an obituary on Agnes Welch Garrigus , who was the sister of my great grandmother. They were the daughters of Ma...

Note: the links to these auctions will no longer be active in a few weeks.  Everyone has been using Google to aid their family history res...

I have to give credit where credit is due. This tip comes by way of Linda McCauley of Documenting the Details  who came to my rescue on Face...

JPG to Word to PDF In September, I wrote about using the Amazon Kindle ebook reader for genealogy - primarily discussing genealogy books...

The LongLostRelatives.net blog is now available in mobile format for mobile devices. My thanks to Elizabeth O'Neal for pointing out this...

Quite often, I'll find myself up early in the morning - after a quick check of blog posts in my reader and Facebook messages from my fel...

There are many web sites where you can do background searches on people for a fee. You can often obtain information such as age, date of bir...

Joel Sartore National Geographic Photographer from Lincoln, Nebraska Lifelong Nebraskan and Lincoln resident Joel Sartore is a national...

After all of the photographs I've removed from "magnetic" photo albums this week, I thought I would share some links to pages ...

We've all been there - we've discovered faded photographs and documents in a basement, attic or storage facility. You immediately re...

Paul Daniel Kelly - and who else? Over the last 30 years I've looked at this photograph of my grand uncle, Paul Kelly, hundreds of ti...

It's easy to say that the Flip-Pal mobile scanner is going to meet my expectations for a versatile portable scanning device. Part 1 of ...

I've eagerly been waiting for my Flip-Pal mobile scanner to arrive ever since I ordered it in August. This little gem arrived yesterday ...

Everyone loves music. So did our ancestors. While putting your family's story into historical context, consider taking a look at the m...

Today's Tip will focus on genealogy resources available on the State of Nebraska's official government web sites. While many of the ...

I will admit this right up front: I do not do well with paper. I print off pages from the Internet, have scraps of notes laying around, note...