One of the most valuable websites for discovering old maps around the world, OldMapsOnline.org has just gotten a lot more useful. The or...

Conveying information about complex family relationships in a graphic format and then navigating the resultant accumulation is one of the ba...

I realized this week, that I was spending most of my time lately in libraries. Most of that time is in the Brigham Young University, Harold ...

Published by John Cary in 1821 , this is one of the most interesting atlas maps of the north-eastern parts of the United States to appear ...

From time to time, I come across a really important record source that I had never seen or heard of previously. This particular website f...

When researching back in the 1700s in Rhode Island, I was able to determine when my ancestral family left the state and moved to New York th...

Some of the first records beginning genealogists look for are those in the U.S. Federal Census. My first experience with the U.S. Federal...