Included here are a wide variety of topics and subjects to help you in your Genealogical search. The primary purpose was to provide resources and ideas to allow you to make your ancestors real people, rather than just a name and date on a chart. Please, let me know if they are useful!
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Many of the following articles were originally written for Suite101 under a variety of Topic headings including North American Genealogy and Genealogical History. For some reason they ended my ability to edit and access, or even write new articles. I have modified and updated many of them since that publication.
| Putting Flesh on the Bones - Introduction to Genealogical History and making your ancestors real people. | Ink on Their Fingers - The importance of newspapers in history and in finding out more about your family history.. |
| Where is that Gold? | |
| Atten-Hut! - Finding Military Information | Mining for Gold in the Newsprint |
| Revolutionary Soldiers | |
| The Blue and the Gray - Civil War Records. | Fraternally Yours - Fraternal Organizations |
| Other Wars - Spanish-American, Mexican-American, Blackhawk and others | Sisterhoods - Women's Organizations |
| The War to End All Wars - World War I | |
| A War in Two Theaters - World War II | Family Bonding Time |
| Heroes - Finding Military Heroes | Triggering Memories |
| What you can learn in a Graveyard | Family Picnics - Another way of collecting information. |
| Littlest Angel Box - Looking for those trinkets and treasures! | |
| Sharing What You Know - Protect it for the future | Teaching Children about Genealogy - Good tips! |
| Protecting Our Records - Important tips on protecting documents | Identifying Photographs - Tips and resources to help you determine dates. |
| Genealogy Road Show - Packing for a research trip | Searching the Web - Using web search tools to find genealogical information. |
| Getting Organized - Tips for putting into a workable format. | Postmarks - More to a letter than the words! |
| Family Tree software - Introduction to computer programs. | Formalizing an Organization - Making a legal entity |
| Hessians - They may have been mercenaries, but they found a better deal! | Family Reunions - Attending and setting up |
| Criminals - The Blacksheep of the Family | |
| Prioritizing Your Time | For Sale to the Highest Bidder - Finding family history in on-line auctions. |
| Be Nice, But Be a Pest | The US GenWeb - One of the pimary web sources of information |
| Spreading the Word - Using the communications abilities of the Internet to further your search. | |
| Pioneer Organizations - Historical groups to check out. | |
| Family Organizations - Formal groups that can help | Borders - Crossing the borders often left a record. |
| Vanity Histories - State and County histories done by publishers and subscribed to by residents. | Give me Land! - Tracking down Land Patents. |
| The Writing of the Working World - Looking for written records in the business world. | Location, Location, Location! - The importance of locations in Genealogy |
| Alma Maters - Don't forget colleges. | |
| Family Histories - Published accounts on family lines. | |
| Get Me To The Church on Time! - Church records | |
| Answering the Call - Pastors and Clergy | |
| What does #$^ Mean? - Working with foreign languages. | |
| Caveat Genealogist! - Frauds, scams and danger signs! | Genealogy in Fantasy - Family trees in Fantasy |