If you have "lost" your ancestor at a certain point in time, put yourself in their shoes and see if it generates any ideas or leads.
Free Newspaper Archives in the US - 0 views
Problems in Native Reenacting: White Indians - 0 views
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Food for thought
Genealogy Tip of the Day: Find Their Shoes and Put Them On - 0 views
The Ancestry Insider: Serendipitous Doppelgänger - 0 views
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It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidences Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable miracles. We call It, “Serendipity in Genealogy.”
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This describes what recently happened to me while researching! I will be sharing my discovers on my blog
One in a Million - Family Tree Magazine - 0 views
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Step 1: Verify the data.
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Step 4: Mine county histories.
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Step 8: Seek death details.
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"So you've found your ancestors among the zillions of names in online trees. Now what?"
Ancestry.com Blog | The official blog of Ancestry.com - 0 views
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Restricting your search to “exact” can help narrow the results.
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enter a date in the year field under Publication Info
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also allow a little wiggle room by entering +/- 1, 2, 5 or 10 years
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Ancestry.com Newspaper database search tips
Genealogy Tip of the Day: Did They Switch Middle Initials? - 0 views
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Did your married female ancestor use her middle name for her middle initial in one record and her maiden name for her middle initial in another?
Search Strategies with Google #3 - Gigi's Geneablog - 0 views
Family History Books - 0 views
Seneca Indians - Historical American Indian Resource - 0 views
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Good general resource for further study.
Search for Sources, Not Just Surnames - 0 views
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new resources coming online every day
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every few weeks I seem to find a new U.S. county has put its deed records online
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The goal here is to search for resources at all levels of government applicable to your country of interest
Censusrecords.com - 0 views
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A new site that looks promising. Rates seem very reasonable.
Research Forms - Family Tree Magazine - 0 views
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Some useful forms - real important for professional researchers - but for most folks there is a point where you can spend too much time filling out forms and not enough time doing the actual research. Pick & chose your tools carefully.
Hystory Byts » Blog Archive » Keeping It Simple - 0 views
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Great advise. Wish everyone understood this. I often get requests like "What tribe did great grandmother Liz belong to. She married a Jones" - and they expect me to figure it out!
Search Strategies for Google #2 - Gigi's Geneablog - 0 views
Search Strategies for Google #1 - Gigi's Geneablog - 0 views
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great tips for any kind of research
Genealogy Timelines - Gigi's Geneablog - 0 views
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One of the most useful things I do is to create a timeline for each ancestor. I place every event I can document on that timeline, along with the documentation notes.
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When you lay these events into a timeline, make sure you view the age of your ancestor as the events occurred.
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It moves you away from records focus so that you can see the big picture of his or her life.
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I find a timeline to be an indispensable tool in genealogy research. Good genealogy software will often do this for you.
Is it Ever as Simple as it Looks? | Personal Past Meditations- a Genealogical Blog - 0 views
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Perhaps one can tell that one doesn’t have enough evidence when one doesn’t yet know enough to be a bit perplexed.
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If this is true - perhaps I can stop looking for evidence on this Kanistanaux family because I certainly am very perplexed ;)
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