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

How to Organize Your Genealogy Cluster Research

How will we manage a genealogy project involving your ancestor, their extended family, neighbors, and friends? Organize your F.AN. Club

Writing Family History

Nick Jonas Interview Reveals Why Family Histories Should Include Many Perspectives

Discover how an interview of Nick Jonas can improve your personal history and memoir writing.

How in-depth should we be when describing our ancestors?

Just how many details should we include in a family story? Is there such a thing as oversharing? If you found yourself asking those...

Beginning Genealogy

Analyze Your Research - A Skill Every Genealogist Needs

If you are not analyzing your genealogy research, you might be building a false family tree.

Writing Family History

They Ran Away: Writing Stories from Newspaper Slave Ads

A reader challenged me to write a story using a Runaway Slave Ad. Can it be done?

Writing Family History

The Gift of Writing a Family History

How does writing family history benefit you and your family? Learn the powerful gifts gained in through genealogy stories.