DearREADERS, Thanks to our friend AI (Ancestry Insider) for a detailed description of New FamilySearch, FamilySearch Indexing and the digitization project currently underway by our friends at FamilySearch.org. See Digitized Records Not Just for Mormons...

DearREADERS, To flesh out the concepts introduced in Building a Case, we'll first use this scanned image from my maternal grandmother's funeral card. Funeral cards are often the first family-held document encountered by beginning genealogists. From...

DearREADERS, Working with beginning researchers of late, it occurs to Ol' Myrt here that a review of the genealogical research process is in order. Seldom do we take the time to explain just how we arrive at a particular assumption about an...

Pictured above: 2801 Perkins Lane, Seattle, Washington. Image from http://maps.Google.com . DearREADERS, Thank-you for your thoughtful responses when asked to work with the newspaper clipping originally posted in yesterday's blog entry. Here's...

DearREADERS, If you ran across this document in your family history research: How would you describe it? What can you tell about Ol' Myrt (yes, this is ME at age 3!) from the information provided?What is missing?Which additional records might this...