Family tree research

Illegitimacy was not uncommon in earlier centuries. About 5% of all children born in England and Wales between 1837 and 1965 were illegitimate, which means they were born out of wedlock. Many family tree researchers will find during their research that there is at least one illegitimate ancestor in their family. Illegitimacy is no longer

Once you start your family history research, you will need to find some way of recording the information you have collected. One of the most popular ways of displaying this information is to use a family group sheet. What A Family Group Sheet Is A family group sheet is used to record details of parents

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There are many ways of finding out about an ancestor's parents, but one of the main ways is to use vital records such as birth and marriage certificates because marriage certificates normally include the father's name, and birth certificates both parents names unless the child was illegitimate. The first place to look to find an

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It turns out that some of the most valuable resources for researching family history are already in our possession or in the hands of family! For which I'm thankful. During my nine years of blogging, I've told stories of using all sorts of everyday records and artifacts to identify ancestors, understand relationships, locate cousins, and fill out my family tree with more than just names and dates. Here's a checklist to use as a starting point for thinking creatively about resources you or…

One of the best ways of preserving your family history and to make the most of your research is to make a family tree album that can help you preserve the information for future generations. Making a family tree album can also help to bring all the family stories and pictures together so that your

At some point in your family tree research, you’ll hit a genealogy brick wall. One strategy to bust down an ancestry brick wall is through surname research.

I have very specific research goals this year. I am doing a project of my mother's genealogy, to match the one I did for my father. I did research, gathered sources, and made a photobook. For much of his family I had to translate everything from Dutch and French (the languages of the records from Belgium), so in the scrap/photo book I included the original scanned document, and a translation. I put maps, family trees, and what few personal photographs we had in as well. This year I am making…