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.

Writing Family History

Why Should You Add Historical Context To Your Writing?

Your relatives lead boring lives, right? Do your dead ancestors have nothing worth writing about? If you answered yes to the first...

Genealogy Research

How to Critically Read a Published Family History

Learn how to critically read published family histories to develop research questions and eventually write a better book people want to read

Online Genealogy Research

Stop Adding These Images to Ancestry

Online genealogy is a wonderful way to collaborate, and I highly encourage you to put your trees online and take advantage of the...

Preserving Family History

10 Ways to Share Your Family History

Learn 10 ways to share family history in such a way your children find it exciting.

Writing Family History

3 Reasons to Stop Researching and Start Writing

Learn why you need to stop researching and start writing a family history book in order to become a better genealogist.

Beginning Genealogy

Guiding Principles for Writing Reason Statements on FamilySearch

Writing reason statements on FamilySearch can be easy if you follow these principles.