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8 Fresh Genealogy Tips for Building Your Family Tree

8 Fresh Genealogy Tips for Building Your Family Tree

Do you need some new ideas for building your family tree? If you’re a beginner to genealogy, or even if you are a veteran, you may sometimes think you have looked at all the sources that could possibly exist on your family lines. This may lead you to a brick wall that seems insurmountable. The good news is that there are always new avenues to explore that may lead you to the answers you seek. If you need some fresh genealogy tips to help you take your family tree back even farther, try these eight interesting ones you may not have considered.

1. DNA

DNA is becoming a big part of the research for today’s genealogists. If you haven’t tried it, you should. DNA research can break through brick walls when nothing else can, and put you in contact with unknown relatives who may have photos and other valuable genealogical information on your line. Best of all, DNA testing is now affordable for everyone. – read more

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Mystery Ancestor? How to Discover Their Origins Using Documents and DNA

Mystery Ancestor? How to Discover Their Origins Using Documents and DNA

Sometimes you come across an ancestor for whom you can find no background information at all. You may know their descendants, but have no clue or even guess as to their origins. Parents, siblings, and anything about their childhood just seems to be missing. They are an entity unto themselves, seemingly come out of nowhere, with no background information in sight anywhere. These are frustrating ancestors to research. It can take years of studious, devoted research to dig up even the tiniest bit of information on them, and when you do, it will seem like the biggest genealogical victory in the world.

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This Week’s Free Genealogy Lookups

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1538-1940 (1999 Supplement)

This knowledge may help you determine additional information such as the name of the ship on which your ancestors sailed and the location of their naturalization.

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: 1500s-1900s (2000 Supplement)

his information was collected from published passenger lists, naturalization records, church records, family and local histories, as well as voter and land registrations.

Kentucky, 1774-1924 Land Records

Land records are important in genealogy research because they place an individual in a specific location at a specific time. They are especially important when researching ancestors who lived prior to the Civil War since most free adult white males owned land at that time.

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