By: Carolyn L. Barkley
I hope each of you has had a wonderful holiday season. Nevertheless, it’s once again that time of year when our minds make plans for the coming new year of genealogical work. Because of our well-intended resolution thoughts, this article has become an annual feature of GenealogyandFamilyHistory.com. We can’t receive too many [...]
Happy Holidays from GenealogyandFamilyHistory.com, Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company. As a holiday gift for 2009, we hope you’ll enjoy this article, originally published in the Genealogical Pointers issue for October 14, 2008. If you don’t currently receive the weekly Genealogical Pointers e-mail, you can subscribe at genealogical.com.
by Brent H. Holcomb
One of the biggest disappointments [...]
By: Carolyn L. Barkley
I have written on several occasions about the exhilaration of moving beyond names and dates and adding detail about the lives of our ancestors. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to put their feet on the ground in a specific place and time. A significant resource in that effort [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
The advent of winter and the holiday season turns our thoughts to family, both our current family and our ancestral families whom we have discovered through our research. Their observance of the winter holidays may have differed significantly from our current observances. Let’s explore the history and observances of three of the [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
The Civil War is one of my favorite subjects, and Civil War military research has become my favorite genealogical research area. I can happily invest hours investigating an individual’s or family’s experiences during that time period, whether the work pertains to my family or to a client’s family. Until recently, the majority [...]