Searching your ancestry can be exciting and fun. You get to learn about your history and where you came from. My Ancestry Guide is a great resource for learning how to research your family’s history. From, where your grandparents came from to much further back in the family tree. My ancestry guide has all you [...]

Footnote has developed a new Civil War web experience. This page features all of our Civil War content in a most unique and engaging way. In the past month, Footnote has added thousands of new Civil War records to our collections. Some of the new collections that are found on the Civil War page include, [...]

When doing family history research illness and death play a large part in understanding what happened to ancestors. The illness that an ancestor may have had is not always clear. This is this is due to the fact that many illnesses either do not exist today or their names have been changed through the years. [...]

Military records are able to help in family research by giving clues to where a soldier or sailor resided, what they did while in the service and when in combat whether they survived or not. There are military records that can tell if the ancestor was discharged from the military and when, this can lead [...]

Cemeteries are filed with tombstones and many of them have markings, which can be symbols or words on the stones. Each of these has a meaning about the person’s life and when researching the family tree this can give insight into the ancestor’s life. These carvings on the stones can be in the form of [...]

Tracing ancestors can be difficult and one of the ways to find many of the male and some female ancestors is by their occupation. These occupations had different names other than the names of the same occupations as today. There were also other occupations that no longer exist. There are many old occupations and lists [...]

Dating photographs is one of the things the family history researcher is able to use, but often have a problem when it involves the age of the photograph. One of the reasons for this is due to the different types of paper or even tin that was used for the photograph. One of the things [...]

When you are researching your genealogy, it can be just like taking a journey to the past. Tracing the family history of yourself and your spouse makes for an interesting hobby. You can uncover fascinating historical information by going beyond names of your relatives, where they lived, and their dates of birth and death. Research [...]

To document your genealogy, consider the use of a pedigree chart. This is a diagram that begins with you as being the number 1 person on the left side of the chart. Your father and mother take the number 2 and 3 spots just to the right of you. Throughout the pedigree chart, males are [...]

Your family tree is unique to yourself and your family. Joining it together with one of the most popular crafting hobbies going seems to be all the rage and we took a bit of time to explore it. What we found was that family tree scrapbooking was fun and interesting and that it made an [...]