The Getting Started with Genealogy Book at Genealogy How To .com

Gary Minder of Poulsbo, WA  has created and offers for free incredibly useful spreadsheets for some of the most important genealogical data we will find  in our research. He requests a small donation, but the utility far exceeds any cost. His work can be found at http://www.censustools.com/
Gary says: Ever try entering extracted census data into [...]

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Who Do You Think You Are? begins Friday, March 5, 2010 at 8/7 Central on NBC.
Share a heartwarming journey through family history with Sarah Jessica Parker, Emmitt Smith, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon and Spike Lee as they discover the stories of their ancestors.
Who Do You Think You Are? also shares ideas [...]

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The following are 10 excellent sites for exploring an African-American heritage:
1. AfriGeneas
2. The USF Africana Heritage Project
This all-volunteer research project and Web site sponsored by the Africana Studies department at the University of South Florida works to discover records that document the names of slaves, freedpersons and their descendants, and share them online.
3. Freedmen’s Bureau [...]

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As one’s research approaches those ancestors living in the 17, 18 and 19th centuries, one faces monetary numbers no longer in use in the United States.
In order to create a reasonable description of the lives and times of those ancestors it is often useful to describe their wealth or lack thereof, to envisage what a [...]

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One can better establish birth dates by knowing when the Census was actually taken. That date is nearly impossible to determine because it is generally not recorded. But one can get closer to the actual birth date by knowing the instructions given to the Enumerators.
U.S. Census enumerators were instructed to take down the names of [...]

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Savannah, GA Genealogy Exposition
The Southeast Family History Expo is a one full day event to be held at The Armstrong Center on the south end of Abercorn Street on February 20, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
Speakers include:
Jan Alpert, President, National Genealogical Society
Dr. Scott Woodward, Director, [...]

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The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) says its new show “Faces of America” uses the latest tools in genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 11 renowned Americans.
The series is to air Wednesdays from Feb. 10-March 3. Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be the show’s host.
“Looking to the wider immigrant experience, [...]

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