Genealogy Articles

Beginner’s Guide: Document! Document! Document!

Do you know that real estate adage, “Location! Location! Location!”? Apparently everything in real estate rests on one point: location. In family history research, we should have an adage too: “Document! Document! Document!” Everything in your family tree really does come down to the documentation that you have to back up a claim. I start this […]

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Genealogy Articles

Beginner’s Guide: Don’t Click The Leaf!

I think there are many of us who have been lured in by the promise of that rippling green leaf, next to our ancestor’s name on Ancestry.com, filled with records and other users’ information. 47 hints?! That’s incredible! Those people in the commercials are so lucky! When I began researching my family history, clicking on that leaf was a […]

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