Large corporations with huge budgets and lots of advertising can make major mistakes in promoting new products. In 1958, the Ford Motor Comp...

I was helping one of my friends with some research recently, who was looking for some record of a birth in Pennsylvania. The problem was tha...

I recently asked the question, "What is Genealogy?" Now I ask a more difficult and important question, "What is Research?...

The above daguerreotype was reportedly of my Great-great-great-grandfather, John Tanner. However, after some extensive research and using ...

We like to think of ourselves as part of a genealogical research community, but what is genealogy and what is research? Sometimes we accept ...

Whenever I teach a class, especially to older people (which is all the time), I constantly get feedback about identity theft issues. Many pe...

Genealogy's Star is honored to be included in Family Tree Magazine's Top 40 Bloggers for 2013. If you are just starting to read...