Basics of Genealogy

In spite of all you may have been led to believe DNA doesn’t have all the answers about genealogy. You won’t be able to take a DNA test and come up with an instant family tree. But there are ...

We think of making a family tree as looking into your family’s past, but that’s not strictly accurate. Family history is what you research when you look back at your ancestors and their ...

One thing you're going to learn very quickly is that genealogy isn't an exact science. It might seem straightforward enough - some was born in a particular year, married in a particular year, had a ...

In genealogy, as in life, the more organised you are, the smoother things will flow. The box file stuffed with notes will work, but soon you're going to find yourself digging through it regularly for ...

Preparing to trace your family tree can be as simple or as complex as you want. If you want to be basic, all you need to gather in the way of materials is a pencil and a piece of paper, and add the ...

The hit BBC television show 'Who Do You Think You Are?' made a lot of people think about genealogy and tracing their ancestry. But even before that before that reached the screens, genealogy was ...

There's more to finding out about your family tree than simply jumping in and delving through old records. So before you go on the trail of that 1901 census, it's advisable to stop and decide where ...