Sooner or later most genealogists find that they have to stop looking for dead people and start looking for living ones. Whether you’re working on adoption research, reconnecting after a generations-old family feud, or just looking to track down your third cousin to share photos, finding living people is a key part of every genealogist’s [...]
Tennessee became a state in 1796, and that means it figures prominently in the histories of many American family. Renowned genealogist and Tennessee records expert J. Mark Lowe will share his special tips and techniques for finding your ancestors in the Volunteer State. This webinar comes with a free copy of our Tennessee Research Guide. [...]
Only $39.99 for the 2/20 session! Conducting research on African-Americans ancestors is a challenging proposition and one must use all the available resources. Newspapers can provide a critical link to research success once the genealogist learns some important general knowledge along with a few essential skills. This course will equip you with key background information [...]
About a year ago we started a new feature here at Family Tree University. The Family Tree Firsts blog was created to allow us to follow along with a newbie genealogist as she began the process of discovering her family history. Nancy Shively served as our first-ever Family Tree Firsts blogger. If you’ve been following [...]
You’re looking at your calendar. You realize you have a couple of hours free. Do you: A) Lay on the couch and watch a made-for-TV movie you’ve already seen B) Rearrange your spice rack so that everything is alphabetical C) Take a nap (okay, we admit it…we like this one too) D) Fill your brain [...]
Family Tree University’s Summer 2011 Virtual Conference is over, but it’s not too late to learn strategies and resources for boosting your research. Watch on-demand video classes from the Family Tree University Summer 2011 Virtual Conference—you can purchase individual classes, tracks, or all sessions.
Editor’s note: A little while back, we looked for a newbie genealogist to be a blogger for us for six months. From the dozens of entries we received, we selected Nancy Shively of Skiatook, OK, as our Family Tree Firsts blogger! This was the entry that secured her the gig: I never fancied myself as [...]
Thinking of going back to school? Family Tree University‘s September session begins Monday, Sept 13, and we’ve got three new courses for you. Read on for the whole course catalog! STRATEGIES New: Organize Your Genealogy: Get Your Research in Order (and Keep It That Way) Whether you work on paper or do everything online, getting [...]
Lisa Louise Cooke will show you how to harness the power of Google search in our class Mastering Google Search. One of the many topics she covers is the new Search Wiki: When you want to do searches and work with the SearchWiki, your comments and SearchWikis will be associated with the Google account you [...]
Diana Smith will be teaching our intro class to using land records this month. Here’s a sample of what the course contains: Deeds are the first land records most of us think to look for when researching genealogy. Once a government transferred land to a proprietor through a grant or patent, that person could sell [...]
There’s a very good reason why working backward is so effective. Let’s say you enter information about yourself into your genealogy database and then record everything about your parents. Next, you work on one of your grandfathers. A quick review of your paternal grandfather reveals that all you have on him is the date he [...]
“Digital cameras are a boon to genealogists. Before digital, using a film-based camera meant waiting for the pictures to come back from the processor before knowing whether the desired image was captured. What a shame if the tombstone inscription picture taken on vacation was washed out with too much flash and you didn’t know it [...]
When searching for published genealogies in a library catalog, try a keyword search for the last name and the word family, such as Jones family. Adding a place (Jones family Virginia) can narrow the search if you get to many results. Try variations on names and places, as most catalog search engines don’t look for [...]
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