Tips to Identify Women in Historical Records
Legacy Tree Genealogists’ Jessica Howe specializes in finding unknown ancestors. In this article, we discover some tips for identifyin…
Vital Records
Tying the Knot: Ancestral Marriage Records and Where You Might Find Them
Marriage records are a major source of genealogical information since they mark the merging of two families and provide what may be the only…
What If the Vital Record Doesn’t Exist? 3 Vital Record Substitutes You Can Use in Your Genealogy Research
In this article we explore several vital record substitutes you can use in your genealogy research when vital records are not a research opt…
Using the Records of the Social Security Administration
Records of the Social Security Administration are extremely valuable when completing genealogy and family history research for individuals w…
Legacy Tree Onsite: Finding Lutheran Ancestors at the Church Registry Office in Hanover
Legacy Tree Genealogists works with researchers all over the world to access records for our clients. We asked Sylvia, onsite in Germany, to…
Disease, Epidemics, and Your Ancestors
It does not take long delving into the world of genealogy to see that death and high mortality rates were more intimate and frequently encou…
Divorce and Your Ancestors: Tracing the Split
Marriage records are a core, basic record type in American genealogy, and one that even the most beginner of researchers usually knows to lo…
Death Certificates: Both a Primary and Secondary Source
When conducting genealogical research, it is important to remember that some documents are considered a primary source, and some are conside…