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William Breitenstein of Louisville, Kentucky Genealogical research into the federal census of Jefferson Co., Kentucky brings up a couple of questions. William Phillip Breitenstein was enumerated with his father Jacob Breitenstein and mother Maggie in 1860 and 1870 in...

Age Variances in the Federal Census One common genealogical lament is that the range of age variations among census years make it hard to definitely identify specific people and differentiate them from contemporaries with the same name in the...

Heritage Newspapers Problems with Optical Character Recognition – OCR and Digitized Online Newspapers Newspapers and Their Bounty Newspapers are chock full of information inherently valuable to the family historian, first and foremost, vital records, notices of births, marriages, deaths,...

Start with what you know. Research from known to unknown proving each link along the way. Interview living members of the family (over and over again) asking specific questions and other times just for a free flow of memories....

The Washington State Digital Archives has wonderful digitized images of vital records from the state including a nice selection of marriage records, returns and certificates. Why should you care especially if the family you are searching settled on the...

When I first moved from Ohio to Colorado, I knew the group of people I would miss the most, was not from work or even neighbors, but my research buddies, Martha Whitehouse, Sue Hawkes Cook, Ronna Bryant, Elizabeth Schearer,...

Last Thursday, 1 December 2011, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal about genealogy by Alina Dizek. Like too many of the Journal’s recent articles, it was longer on pictures and shorter on facts than the old...