Preserving Family History

5 Tips For Beginning Genealogy Research

There are five fundamental steps for beginning genealogy research that will ensure you’ll have fun while climbing your family tree. What ...

What To Do Before Downsizing Your Home Or Genealogy Files

It’s hard to believe but someday you will face the challenge of downsizing your home and your genealogy files. Before you begin, take tim...

Why I Share Family History with My Children

Growing up far from family, I often feared what would happen to me if my parents or only brother died. I would feel like an emotional orp...

What Responsibilities Does a Descendant of Slaveholders Bear?

If you have ancestors who owned other people, what should you do when you discover you are a descendant of slaveholders? Cheri Hudson Pas...

How to Preserve the Treasures in Your Home

When you preserve the treasures in your home and the homes of your loved ones, you magnify the depth of your family history. Family histo...

What Kind of Family History Interview Should You Conduct?

Interviewing relatives infuses genealogy with a wealth of stories and clues that are waiting to be harvested. However, not all interviews...

Give Your Photos, Stories

Let’s be brutal. Photos without stories are worthless. They are no better than the photos in picture frames you buy off the shelve with p...

5 Tips for Donating Your Genealogy

What do we do with stuff that we need to downsize but can no longer (or don’t want to) take care of? Amy Johnson Crow shared five fantast...

Record the Stories That Lack Documentation

Does everything that happens in our life produce documents and photos? And are these moments less important because they lack such eviden...

What questions should you ask your relatives before they die?

Do you struggle coming up with questions for interviewing a relative? You know that preparing questions ahead of time, but what should yo...

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