Easy Genealogy Research Tips and Tricks

Check out the latest tips and tricks for researching your family tree and writing your ancestor's stories. Use the blog sub-menu to filter to categories such as genetic genealogy, writing family history, and doing online genealogy research.

Genealogy Research

The Best Genealogy Gift of 2023

Gift ideas for the genealogists on your list.

Beginning Genealogy

You Are No Longer a Beginning Genealogist When...

How can you build your confidence in genealogy research enough to know you're no longer a beginner?

Writing Family History

Ignore Your Audience When Writing Your Family History First Draft

Should you have a specific audience in mind as you turn your genealogy research into a published family history book.

Organizing Genealogy Research

Should Spouses Have One Tree or Separate Trees?

If I am researching my ancestors and those of my wife, is it better to maintain two completely separate family trees or combine them?

Are You Carefully Adding People to Ancestry Family Tree?

Have you ever looked and your Ancestry family tree and wondered: How did I create so many duplicate persons in my family tree? Why are...

Writing Family History

Family Historians Should Avoid Presentism In Their Books

Should you judge and criticize your ancestors? If so, should you publish those criticisms in a genealogy book?