29th September 2009
There have been times, when I have embarked on family history research, that I will admit that I've just been too narrow in my thinking. I guess that I have concentrated too much on details that I believed to be correct about my ancestor. The sort of thin...
31st July 2009
As my search for ancestors in my family tree has progressed, along the way I have been helped by distant "cousins" who are researching the same or collateral lines of my family. Their input has boosted my research and sent me much further forward in the q...
02nd July 2009
For some time, now, I've worked away at my family search project to populate my family tree with ancestors. I would have to say that the websites I generally have used the most include Ancestry, owned by the Generations Network; The Genealogist.co.uk; Gen...
28th June 2009
Researching our ancestry on the Internet is arguably one of the most popular pastimes in the 21st century. Not very long ago, however, the family historian, wanting to tracing their family tree, would have to plan various visits to city or county librarie...