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January 8, 2023

What You Probably Do Not Know About the FamilySearch Catalog and About Catalogs in General

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site.   I have spent a great portion of my life both working and as a patron in libraries. I started going to the Phoenix Public Library in Phoenix, Arizona when I was about 8 years old and was a constant patron of that and other libraries as I...

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January 1, 2023

Access – The Real Genealogical Challenge

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site.   During the last two years or so, I had online consultations through the FamilySearch Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. These consultations last twenty minutes and I usually schedule eight a week. The FamilySearch Family History Library has a link to get Research Help. Here...

Country Research/Records/Research
December 19, 2022

Comments on the Limitations of Online Genealogical Research

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site.   If you do all your research in the 20th and 19th Centuries in developed countries, you might have a tendency to forget that paper exists. But the minute you step out of your comfortable cocoon of online records, research becomes much more difficult. Genealogists spend much of...

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December 11, 2022

New QRB Video: Researching Records in New Zealand

We’ve added a new QRB (Quick Research Basics) video to our YouTube Channel—Researching Records in New Zealand, by James Tanner. It introduces you to government records and archives, census records and more, as well as providing basic strategies for successful New Zealand genealogy research. You can watch the video on our YouTube Channel playlist, and it’s provided as a convenience...

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December 4, 2022

Live and Unrehearsed Research from Goldie May: Episodes 31 and 32

Here are the latest videos from the “Live and Unrehearsed” series. Each of these videos will give you insight into how to do research online. There is about one new video per week released on the Goldie May YouTube Channel. Here are the links to Episodes 31 and 32. You can view them here or on the YouTube Channel playlist....

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November 28, 2022

Let’s Be Thankful for These 10 Family History Things

We just concluded Thanksgiving week, and there is a lot to be grateful for. As we think specifically about family history, there are many tender mercies that happen along the way. Let’s take a moment and reflect on some of the things we may occasionally take for granted but are always blessings: Ancestors who kept journals. One of the most...

Country Research/Memories/Research/U.S. Research
November 20, 2022

What Are the Oldest Reliable Genealogical Records?

Note: This article was previously published on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. The oldest records that can be reliably used for genealogical research depend entirely on the place where the records may have been kept. Some Chinese records go back more than 2000 years, but English parish records begin in 1538. If you live in Utah, the first genealogical records...

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November 14, 2022

New: The Family History Guide Q&A Center

We’re happy to announce an exciting new feature in The Family History Guide—the Q&A Center. This tool can be used both for individual self-study and for training family history consultants or trainers. In The Family History Guide, you can access the Q&A Center in the Intro menu or in the Trainers menu. About the Q&A Center It’s fitting that The...

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September 11, 2022

Inside the Guide: Exploring UK Historical Maps

Looking for all the right places to research your ancestors in the United Kingdom and Ireland? Check out the Goals for Maps and Gazetteers in The Family History Guide. These Goals are located in the following Country pages: England Scotland Wales Ireland Some of the map resources you’ll find include David Rumsey.com contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses...

Country Research
September 4, 2022

Inside the Guide: Business and Occupational Records

We are coming up fast on the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. One of the joys of family history is getting to know your ancestors on a more personal level, and an important part of that is understanding what occupations they had. Some may have even changed jobs or occupations several times in their lives, due to life circumstances...

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