Category: Genealogy Guides

13 Reasons You Can’t Find the Genealogy Information You’re Looking For Last Updated August 31, 2020 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) Searching for and locating records about our ancestors is seldom a simple process. Of course, we all have those easy to find individuals that seem to appear…

Offline Vital Records are Critical to Your Research, and Ordering Them is Easier Than You Think Last Updated November 30, 2023 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) by Marsha Peterson-Maass If you’ve never taken the time to track down offline vital records about your ancestors you might be…

How Accurate Are DNA Tests? Why You May Be Reading Your DNA Results All Wrong Last Updated January 7, 2024 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) Millions of people have received DNA tests over the holiday season and, as results start to finally roll in, many of you…

Serious About Genealogy? Here are 10 Books to Read This Year Last Updated September 1, 2018 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) By Kimberly Tucker Having recently painted my office a fresh Robin’s egg blue, I removed all of my genealogy books from my shelves. This gave me…

Why You Should Start Using Pinterest for Genealogy Right Now (and How to Do It) Last Updated December 12, 2019 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) If you’re one of the 175 million people around the world who use Pinterest every month, you probably already know that there’s…

How to Easily Move Your Family Tree From (or To) Ancestry, MyHeritage or FindMyPast Last Updated December 30, 2023 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) We’ve been talking a lot about family tree programs lately. We recently published a guide to finding the best family tree program for…

Ancestry Isn’t the Only Site With Record Hints Last Updated December 8, 2023 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) Ancestry.com is famous for its record hints – those little green leaves in your family tree that give you fact suggestions from records and other family trees. These hints…

A Gravesite Can Reveal Remarkable Details About Your Ancestor, IF You Can Find It Last Updated December 10, 2023 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) Have you taken the time to find a gravesite for each of your ancestors? If you haven’t, you could be missing a key…

The Hugely Valuable Records Many Family Historians Forget About Last Updated January 18, 2023 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) Most genealogists use federal census records on a regular basis. Few resources are, after all, as packed full of information and as easy to access as a census.…

How to Use Your Existing DNA Test to Get a Low-Cost Genetic Health Report Last Updated December 30, 2023 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) Here at Family History Daily we’ve covered DNA testing for genealogy research pretty extensively, but we’ve always focused on ancestry reports, not health…