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So you want to trace your family tree. There are several reasons for doing it, from sheer curiosity to discovering your ...

Wills are a great avenue for any family history researcher. Although many Irish wills were lost in a 1922 fire, you can ...

You can find vital records in Ireland from the time civil registration began, but you can also go further back in church ...

One of the biggest you'll encounter in your research is the surname variation. It can lead to plenty of confusion as you ...

No serious researcher is ever going to claim to have completed a family tree. All that's happened is that you've gone as ...

There can be several reasons for failing to find a specific birth certificate. This details many of them, and the ways you ...

Transportation was seen as a humane alternative to execution and imprisonment. For genealogists, the records of ...

Most of us are the descendants of immigrants, even if we don't think of ourselves that way. Some just arrived more ...

Because of slavery, finding records on African-Americans before the Civil War is almost impossible. But for the period ...

U.S. census records can be quite expansive. Although you have to pay to access most of them, the information you'll ...
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