|
Expert Tips Archive
| Nov
05, 2003 |
Danish Research, Finding
a Birth Date, Defining an Abstract, Grandma Morgan |
| Oct
05, 2003 |
Birth Certificates
in Portugal, Searching for Slave Records, Canadian Records, Am I Looking
for a Widow? |
| May
29, 2003 |
Can't Find
Father's Family, Confused by Source Citation, Creating a GEDCOM of Partial
Family File, Which Is My Immigrant |
| May
22, 2003 |
Researching
Name Found in a Bible, Double First Cousins, Descended of Kings, Looking
for Census and Tax Lists |
| May
15, 2003 |
No Maiden
Name, Just Getting Started, Determining Place of Marriage, Understanding
My Online Census Subscription |
| May
08, 2003 |
Finding
Father of Richard Pomeroy, World War I Military Records, Immigrant to Boston,
Want It Online |
| April
24, 2003 |
1900 U.S.
Census, Viewing Family Tree Maker GED Files, Sequence of Names, What's the
Difference |
| April
17, 2003 |
Trouble
Starting, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, No Death Place in SSDI, Other Ports
of Entry |
| April
10, 2003 |
Privacy
for the Living, Restricted Films at the FHL, 1960 Census, Lost User Pages |
| April
03, 2003 |
Castle
Garden, Born at Sea, No Family through Ellis Island, The 1890 Census |
| March
27, 2003 |
Getting
Started in African American Research, From Word to Family Tree Maker, Info.
on Bottom of 1930 Census, Can't Find in Census Search |
| March
13, 2003 |
Social
Security Records, Grand Aunt or Great Aunt, Tracing an Old Business, How
to Edit Someone Else's Tree |
| February
27, 2003 |
Trying
to Save My Pennies, English and Irish Families, Cemetery Name Change, Burial
of the Poor |
| February
20, 2003 |
Orphan
Trains, Dates in Genealogy Software, Looking for Information Online, Headings
of the 1910 Census |
| February
13, 2003 |
Customs
Lists, Searching the Online Census Records, Not Sure How to Find the Ship,
Importing PAF into Family Tree Maker |
| February
06, 2003 |
Saving
to CD-ROM, Erroneous Death Certificate Information, From Database to Microfilm,
Prison Records |
| January
30, 2003 |
Old Family
Photographs, Long Distance Genealogy, Scanning Notes Instead of Typing,
Nineteenth Century Photographs in Missouri |
| January
23, 2003 |
Irish Research,
Federal and State Census Dates, In Search of a Grave, More Than One Wife |
| January
16, 2003 |
Relationship
Question, Where to Turn for Information, Correcting Errors Found Online,
How Many Files |
| January
02, 2003 |
Relationship
too Close?, Who Goes on the Family Tree?, Tips on Interviewing, Disappearing
Marriage Record |
| December
19, 2002 |
Surname
Spelling Changes, Incorrect SSDI Residence, Entering Royal Data, Duplication
in the Census |
| December
12, 2002 |
Early Naturalization,
Lost in New York, I Want to Record Places Correctly, Becoming a Professional |
| December
05, 2002 |
Maiden
Names, European Roots, Delayed Birth Certificate |
| November
21, 2002 |
In Search
of Waters, Finding Customs Lists of Passengers, My Immigrant Grandparent,
Preserving My Work |
| November
14, 2002 |
Is It Copyrighted?,
Hit a Brick Wall, In Search of Great-Grandfather, Creating My Website |
| November
07, 2002 |
A Teacher
in Texas, The Late Mary Brevoort, Lovell's Canadian Dominion Directory,
Resistant to Removeds |
| October
31, 2002 |
Not an
Original Birth Certificate?, Researching Sarah Ann Cook, Record of Death
by Train, Missing U.K. Birth Certificate |
| October
24, 2002 |
Getting
Dad's Military Records, What is an Issuing State in the SSDI?, Respecting
Privacy When You Publish, When Did They Come to America? |
| October
17, 2002 |
Related
to Walt Disney?, Advice for a New Researcher, Locating First Papers, In
Search of a Cemetery |
| October
10, 2002 |
Need a
Pedigree Chart on Genealogy Companies, Looking for George Wallace, Birth
Record Alternatives |
| October
03, 2002 |
In Search
of a Maiden Name, Where Did She Die?, Early Italian Ancestry, Where Are
the French? |
| September
26, 2002 |
Missing
from the Social Security Death Index, Where Was He Really Born?, Wanted:
Naturalization Records Online, Going Offline for Research |
| September
19, 2002 |
Researching
20th Century Ancestors, Farming in Minnesota, Non-American Research, Understanding
Relationships between Cousins |
| September
12, 2002 |
Making
Sense of Inherited Research, Finding Original Marriage Records, Installing
Family Tree Maker on a Second Computer, Recording Parents Who Never Married |
| September
05, 2002 |
Apprenticeship
Records, Sharing a Birth Certificate, Which Tree to Use, Recording Female
Names |
| August
29, 2002 |
What Was
Her Name?, Finding a Hard Copy of a Passenger List, Name Changes during
Immigration, Different Types of Trees |
| August
22, 2002 |
What to
Do with a Social Security Number, Native American Research, Misinformation
Found, Finding Place Names |
| August
15, 2002 |
Sharing
Research from Program to Program, Document Preservation, Just Learning,
Trouble Finding Anything |
| August
08, 2002 |
Tracing
French Ancestry, A Boy Named Fleming, Searching for Possible Non-Conformist
Family, A Death in Argentina |
| July
25, 2002 |
Surname
Spelling Variations, 1910 Census Civil War Veteran, Out of Print Books,
Finding a Name |
| July
18, 2002 |
Clues from
1881 English Census Index, Source Citation vs. Master Source, Manifest ID
Numbers, Ireland to Ellis in 1859 |
| July
11, 2002 |
Sharing
Information, Hiring a Professional, Entering Dit Names |
| June
27, 2002 |
German
Birth Records, Ship Records, Related to General John Stark |
| June
20, 2002 |
Why Private,
Native American Research, Institution Records |
| June
13, 2002 |
Adoption
Research, Adding to a Tree, Tree Numbers, Keeping a History of Now |
| June
06, 2002 |
Bad Info.,
Family History in Australia, 1930 Census, Recording Dit Names in Genealogy
Software |
| May
30, 2002 |
Looking
toward Certification, Missing in SSDI, Understanding Dit Names, Grandpa
Came through Ellis Island |
| May
23, 2002 |
Figuring
Birth from Census, Canon vs. Civil, GEDCOM to FTM Problem, Hiring a Genealogist |
| May
16, 2002 |
1890 Census,
Ellis Island, Beginning Genealogy |
| May
09, 2002 |
Separate
Family Files, Sharing Social Security Numbers, Family Tree Not Online, World
War I Enlistment/Service |
| May
02, 2002 |
Questionable
CDs, Cousinship Terms, Before Ellis Island, Looking for a Death Certificate |
| April
25, 2002 |
Going to
the Courthouse, Genealogy 101, From England to the United States |
| April
18, 2002 |
Going Back
to Italy, Australian Research, Becoming a Professional Genealogist |
| April
11, 2002 |
Married
in Malaysia, Native American Research, Prison Records— NYS under Colonial
Rule |
| April
04, 2002 |
Hiring
a Professional, Tracing an Emigrant, Updating My Online Tree |
| March
28, 2002 |
Ship Passenger
Information, Enumeration District from Address, Where to Start in Lithuania |
| March
21, 2002 |
Railroad
Retirement Benefits, Privatized Information, FamilyFinder Reports, Beyond
Ellis Island |
| March
14, 2002 |
Audio Cassette
Preservation, Ancestor Has Disappeared, Second Spouses, Born in Texas |
| March
07, 2002 |
Pre-1962
Social Security Search, Searching for Erik Frey, More Info. Needed, Contacting
Courthouses |
| February
28, 2002 |
Surname
Spellings, Elusive Passenger List, Disappearing Family Page, Author of a
Family Tree |
| February
21, 2002 |
Cousins,
Finding a Birth Date, Individuals with Different Surnames, Looking for Churches |
| February
14, 2002 |
Passport
Indexes, Finding a Tree in World Family Tree, Numident vs. SS-5, Beginning
Genealogist |
| February
07, 2002 |
Where Did
He Come From?, Forcing the Correction of Incorrect Information, Appointment
of Guardian, What Is a Great? |
| January
31, 2002 |
Her Name
Was Nancy, Finding Wills, Born in Ireland, Incompatible File Formats |
| January
24, 2002 |
The Next
Step, Civil War Vet, Just Learning, Tindalls in 1900 |
| January
17, 2002 |
City Directories,
Getting a Birth Certificate, Scottish Prisoner, Finding a Link to Family |
| January
10, 2002 |
Baffled
by Erroneous Information, Looking for Family, Understanding the Online 1900
Census, One Family File or Many |
| January
03, 2002 |
Ohio Deaths,
The Name's the Same, Kissing Cousins, Fred or John |
| December
20, 2001 |
Place of
Death, Primogeniture and Inheritance, Records for Castle Garden |
| December
13, 2001 |
Cemeteries,
Receiving GEDCOM Files, Genealogy.com Genealogy Classes, Researching Online |
| December
06, 2001 |
Birth Places,
Railroad Accident, End of Line Ancestor, What Am I Doing Wrong? |
| November
29, 2001 |
Family
Crest, Research in New York, Waiting for Correspondence, WFT Contributors |
| November
15, 2001 |
Lost Family,
I Need Evidence, 1910 Index Alternatives, Italian Research |
| November
08, 2001 |
Pre-Ellis
Island Records, A Complete Tree, Uncovering Many Generations, Russian Research |
| November
01, 2001 |
Plott Family
Tree, Social Security Price Increase, Ellis Island Online, Vital Records
Online |
| October
25, 2001 |
Handling
Name Changes, Page No Longer There, Surname Definition, Notations on the
Census |
| October
18, 2001 |
Which Tree
to Do?, From CD to Source, Errors on a Page, Cataloging Digitized Files |
| October
11, 2001 |
Getting
Started Online, The GAR, World War I Pension |
| October
04, 2001 |
Grandma's
from Finland, Lost at Sea, FBI Records, Are They Related |
| September
27, 2001 |
Researching
in Germany, Jersey Blues, African American Research, Chartin Dilemma |
| September
13, 2001 |
Too Late
for Ellis Island, Cherokee Heritage, How to Go Back, Coat of Arms |
| September
06, 2001 |
Looking
in Census, Looking for a Death, Intermarriages, Sealed Records |
| August
30, 2001 |
Looking
for O'Leary, Morton Allen Directory, How Do I Find Her, Unknown Abbreviation |
| August
23, 2001 |
America
as the Foreign Country, Is There a Relationship, Where Is He? |
| August
16, 2001 |
Census
Records Online, Searching for Brown, Which Name Do You Use? |
| August
09, 2001 |
New York
City Marriage, SSDI Is Wrong, Germans to America, Getting Added to the SSDI |
| August
02, 2001 |
Dit Names,
Name Changes, Mortality Schedules, Early Land Grants |
| July
26, 2001 |
Farm Schedules,
Passenger List Annotations, Other Ports of Arrival, Civil War Soldier |
| July
19, 2001 |
Handling
Jr. and Sr., Passenger List Problem, Naturalization in the 1700s, Ohio Lands |
| July
12, 2001 |
1900 Census
Question, RR and Social Security, Different Languages—Different Spellings,
Online Death Indexes |
| June
28, 2001 |
Creating
a Family Association, Oklahoma Territory, Looking for Manifests, No Birth
Record |
| June
21, 2001 |
Missing
from SSDI, Catholic Records, What Is She to Me, Making a Connection |
| June
14, 2001 |
Identity
Theft, Relationship Confusion, Searching for Surnames, Missing Birth Records |
| June
07, 2001 |
Seeking
a Passenger, Degrees of Relationship, Getting Started Online |
| May
31, 2001 |
Wills in
Lee County, Unauthorized Use, Ellis Island Records |
| May
24, 2001 |
Researching
in Massachusetts, Contacting a Missing Relative, No Paper Trail, Foreign
Research |
| May
17, 2001 |
Contact
WFT Contributors, Indians, Probate Records, Looking for a Passenger |
| May
10, 2001 |
Genealogy
Detective, What Place?, Sharing Your Data, Railroad Passengers |
| May
03, 2001 |
Prison
Records, Looking for Tanners, What Records First? |
| April
26, 2001 |
Are We
Cousins?, How Are We Related? Royal Relationships, Common Surnames |
| April
19, 2001 |
Understanding
Census Records, U.S. Military Buried in England, Researching in Indiana |
| April
12, 2001 |
Webb Family
Crest, Stewart Research, Still Related? |
| April
05, 2001 |
Opening
a GEDCOM, Finding Blank Forms, The Key Is Organization |
| March
29, 2001 |
Getting
Started Online, Finding Families, Early Immigrant Arrivals, Massachusetts
Research |
| March
22, 2001 |
When to
Publish Online, No One to Turn To, Removed from What?, Finding a Professional |
| March
15, 2001 |
African
American Vital Records, Where on the Ship's List?, Where Is He?, Looking
for Naturalization Records |
| March
08, 2001 |
Lost Marriage
Record, Information from Census, Who Are His Parents, Whom Did She Marry |
| March
01, 2001 |
Looking
for Jimtown, Looking for Census, Listed in the Census, Genealogical Education |
| February
22, 2001 |
Where in
Switzerland, Early Land Grants, Stuck in Baltimore, Protecting Privacy |
| February
15, 2001 |
Keeping
Costs Down, Mortality Schedules, Finding the Right Church |
| February
01, 2001 |
Bounty
in North Carolina, Soldiers Named Battle, Getting Started, Searching for
Parents |
| January
25, 2001 |
Working
with Immigrants, Learning about Land Records, Release of Dower, Arriving
in Albany |
| January
18, 2001 |
Daughtering
Out, Writing for Records, Native American Ancestry, Passenger List or Manifest |
| January
11, 2001 |
Looking
for Birth Place, Which Society, What Do You Source, Military Records |
| January
04, 2001 |
Continuing
Pedigree Charts, Photograph Scanning Resolutions, Family Traditions, Jumping
the Pond |
| December
28, 2000 |
Finding
a Birth Certificate, Prison Records, Out of Print Books, Finding Social
Security Number |
| December
21, 2000 |
County
Names, Lost at Sea, Hinshaw's American Quaker Genealogy, Crossing
the Pond |
| December
14, 2000 |
Ancestral
File Information, Computerizing My Genealogy, Working with the Dawes Rolls,
New England Research |
| December
07, 2000 |
History
of a Ship, Understanding Census Questions, African American Research, Passenger
Lists Resources |
| November
30, 2000 |
Wrights
of Virginia, Finding a Website, Famous Family Connections, Massachusetts
Vital Records |
| November
23, 2000 |
Death in
Kentucky, Junior or The Second, Proper Use of Baptismal Dates, Cherokee
Ancestry |
| November
16, 2000 |
Castle
Garden, French Ancestry, U.S. Military Buried in England |
| November
09, 2000 |
Getting
Started on the Internet, Using Land Records, Railroad Employees, Were They
Naturalized |
| November
02, 2000 |
Starting
a Family Tree, From Kansas to Oklahoma, Black Dutch, Recording Place Names |
| October
26, 2000 |
Not Online,
Using Tax Records, Research in Missouri, Hardy Family Research |
| October
19, 2000 |
Junior,
Senior and So On, Coming from England, Missing Generations, Genealogical
Education |
| October
12, 2000 |
A Basic
Question, Where to Turn Next, Researching in New Jersey, Came from Ireland |
| October
05, 2000 |
Church
Records Online, Understanding Relationships, Researching in Indiana, Researching
in London |
| September
28, 2000 |
Researching
in Georgia, Ryals in Georgia, Getting Back to Norway, Was the Name Changed |
| September
21, 2000 |
Arkansas
Census, Where Do I Look, Searching in Indiana, Old Cemeteries |
| September
14, 2000 |
Missing
from SSDI, He Didn't Exist, Early Indians, Spelling Variants |
| September
07, 2000 |
Finding
the Impossible, Born in Mexico, World War I Help, Dawes Commission |
| August
31, 2000 |
From New
York to Ohio, Early Birth Record Options, Clearing the Confusion, Age Calculations |
| August
17, 2000 |
Which Date?,
Pennsylvania's Mortality Schedule, Finding Kentucky Death Records, Getting
Vital Records |
| August
10, 2000 |
Born in
South Carolina, Triplets Disappear, Who Are My Great Grandparents, Records
from Boston |
| August
03, 2000 |
Disappearing
Ancestor, Born in Norway, Immigrant Research, Pagan Research |
| July
27, 2000 |
Invented
Ancestor, Sherman Family Crest, Researching in Florida, Family in California |
| July
20, 2000 |
Accessing
Passenger Lists, Proving a Family Tradition, What Is Proof, The Correct
Place |
| July
13, 2000 |
Census
Age Ranges, Working with the Computer, World War I Draft Dodge, People Not
Found in the SSDI |
| July
06, 2000 |
Family
Tree Forms, Locating Port of Entry, Understanding Real Estate Values,
Born in Kentucky |
| June
29, 2000 |
Finding
the Boat, They Came from Scotland, A Possible Japanese Connection, Unknown
Birthdate |
| June
22, 2000 |
Where Did
It Come From, Keeping the Costs Down, Understanding Relationships, Related
to President McKinley |
| June
15, 2000 |
Searching
on the Internet, Famous Family, Burned Records, Deaf and Dumb |
| June
08, 2000 |
Meaning
of Surnames, Passengers on a Ship, Looking for a Peacock, Just Starting
Out |
| June
01, 2000 |
Where is
the Tree Filed?, Family Trees Everton Publishers FTM CD #15, A Lack of Information,
Grandparents in Sicily |
| May
25, 2000 |
Finding
Parents' Names, Native American Blood Quantum, The Brick Wall, Am I Related? |
| May
18, 2000 |
Searching
for Slave Records, Germans in St. Petersburg, Defining Census Notation Marks,
How Can I Find a Birth Date? |
| May
04, 2000 |
RR in SSDI,
Finding Naturalization Records, Jail Records, Canadian Border Crossing |
| April
27, 2000 |
Patronymic
Surnames, A Missing Child, A Birth in Glasgow, Did He Remarry? |
| April
20, 2000 |
Locating
Naturalization Records, Getting Past a Brick Wall, Understanding Citizenship
Columns in 1920 Census, Russian Emigres |
| April
13, 2000 |
Birth Record
Alternative, Meaning of Old Words, Internet Limitation, A Search for Evidence |
| April
06, 2000 |
Early German
Ancestor, What's the Next Step, Products to Figure Relationship, A Change
in Spelling |
| March
30, 2000 |
Stock Marks,
Ellis Island Records, Early English Records, Where Are They Buried? |
| March
23, 2000 |
Looking
for Kirks in Delaware, Where in Manhattan, Lost in Early 1900s, What Does
This Mean |
| March
16, 2000 |
Immigration
Question, Looking up Ships' Records, Teenagers and Genealogy, Migration
to Russia |
| March
09, 2000 |
Missing
Records, Died in 1961, Ship Records, Looking for My Family Coat of Arms |
| March
02, 2000 |
Connecting
from South Carolina Back to Virginia, Help Finding Parents, Births in New
York City, Missing Ancestors |
| February
24, 2000 |
Locating
Name Origin, Understanding Cousinship, Maybe Related to Titanic Passenger,
Junior and Senior |
| February
17, 2000 |
Descendant
from Stephen Hopkins, Black Genealogy, Brooklyn in 1910, Texas or New Mexico |
| February
10, 2000 |
Lost Family,
My Relations in Scotland, WW I Help, Hit a Brick Wall |
| February
03, 2000 |
Can't Get
Started, From Slovakia, A Change of Name, Researching in Peru |
| January
27, 2000 |
Looking
for Great Grandparents, Death in Washington, Conflicting Information, Family
from Italy |
| January
20, 2000 |
Born in
London, SSDI Explanation, School Project, Beginning in New York |
| January
13, 2000 |
How Are
They Related, Looking for Virgil White's Family, Missing from the Social
Security Death Index, No Help at Home |
| January
06, 2000 |
First Families
of Virginia; Married in New York; Looking for Naturalization Records; Going
Home to Ireland |
| December
30, 1999 |
Filling
in the Missing Pieces; Looking for Presumption, Russia; Nineteenth Century
Adoptions; Can't Connect to Virginia |
| December
23, 1999 |
Researching
Long Distance, Died in New Brunswick, Who Are His Parents, Possibly Skeletons
in the Closet |
| December
16, 1999 |
How Are
We Related, Born in Vermont, CPA from the 1960s, How to Handle Divorce |
| December
09, 1999 |
From Quarles
to Qualls, Married in West Virginia, Looking for Passenger List, Moodys
in New Hampshire |
| December
02, 1999 |
From
Scotland to Nova Scotia, Older Relatives Dead, Unknown Marriage Year, Looking
for Cheairs |
| November
25, 1999 |
Creedons
from England, Too Many Breeches, RR in SSDI, Baby Lafayette |
| November
18, 1999 |
African
American Research Possible, Military Records Online, Changing Names, What
Day Was That, Where to Write |
| November
11, 1999 |
Understanding
Online IGI Records, Grandpa Was a Mason, Working on the Railroad, Protocol
on Using Others' Family Trees, Mayflower Connection |
| November
04, 1999 |
Fan Charts
for Christmas, Scotland in 1850, Parents and Naturalization, Can It Be Downloaded?,
Baptism or Confirmation |
| October
28, 1999 |
Finding
Records on Civil War Veterans, Early Births in England, Teamsters in the
Civil War, Starting Researching in Mena, Arkansas, Where Was He Buried |
| October
21, 1999 |
Canon vs.
Civil, Beginning Cherokee Research, Working with Federal Land Records, Frustrated
with Kentucky Research |
| October
07, 1999 |
Jumping
the Ocean, Working Before Census Records, Researching in Ireland, Finding
a Family |
| September
30, 1999 |
Rip Off
or Value?, Vital Records in Colorado, Emigrating to Canada, Researching
in Spain and Argentina, Most Common Surnames |
| September
23, 1999 |
Where to
Go?, He Didn't Die There, Born in Ohio, Catch 22, Farm Census Schedules |
| September
16, 1999 |
Finding
Naturalization Records, Finding History of a Place, Finding a Place Name,
Lithuania to Boston, Getting beyond Grandpa |
| September
09, 1999 |
Canada
Back to England, The Meadors Oil Well, Just How Do I Get Started?, DALEYs
in New England, Understanding Tax Lists |
| September
02, 1999 |
Jail Records,
Do SS Numbers Go Bad?, From Kentucky to Indiana, Vital Records from England,
Where Do I Turn? |
| August
26, 1999 |
Signer
of Declaration of Independence Family Tradition, A Woman's Name, The 1890
and 1900 Census, Social Security in Virginia, New York or New Jersey |
| August
19, 1999 |
Family
in Massachusetts in 1700; Born in Mississippi; A Book on Quebec; An Unusual
Name; Stuck in Kentucky |
| August
05, 1999 |
Finding
a Louisiana Birth, Is He a KUNTZ or a CUNTZ?, Immigration Records for Castle
Garden, Ontario Research, Cherokee Research |
| July
29, 1999 |
How Can
I Find a Birth Date, How Do I Calculate a Birth Date, Understanding Relationship,
What's in an Abstract, Brick Wall in Georgia |
| July
22, 1999 |
Was She
a Widow, Defining Census Notation Marks, Name Confusion, Online Research
for Sweden |
| July
15, 1999 |
Too Many
Churches, Hiring a Professional, Who is Francis' Father?, Where is Cyprien
CHARLES?, Just Getting Started |
| July
08, 1999 |
How Are
We Related?, Pre-1820 Passenger Lists, Cemetery No Help, Missing from the
SSDI, Canadian Border Crossings |
| July
01, 1999 |
Understanding
IGI Entries, Can I Research an Adoption Line?, Germans in St. Petersburg,
A Murder in 1838, Finding My Indian |
| June
24, 1999 |
Finding
Italian Ancestry, Copies from the Census, Passenger Lists of the 1700s,
World War I Service, Records of the CCC |
| June
17, 1999 |
The Name's
the Same, Searching for Slave Records, Ireland in 1872, World War II Death,
What to Do before Death Records |
| June
03, 1999 |
SS-5 Forms,
Common Surnames, Jamaican Research, Bounty Land Records |
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