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How To Set a Genealogy Research Goal

September 24, 2024 by Derek Tolman 2 Comments

Every year more and more records are made available from archives worldwide and family history industry partners continue to deliver technologies to make the research process more effective. These technologies range from using artificial intelligence to enable full-text search of handwritten records, to improved tools for analyzing DNA results to identify an unknown parent or break through a brick wall. Notwithstanding all these developments, genealogy research often still requires painstaking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Education, Genealogy for Enjoyment, genealogy research, Genealogy Tips & Best Practices Tagged With: genealogy goals, genealogy research, genealogy research goal

Top 10 Genealogy and Family History Articles of 2023

December 15, 2023 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 4 Comments

We’ve compiled a list of our best genealogy and family history articles for the entire year of 2023 based on your interests and needs. Every week, one of our professional genealogists writes an article to help you navigate your family history research and get through any brick walls. From DNA to dual citizenship to regional specialties, our genealogy articles cover every nook and cranny! Here are the most popular articles of 2023! 10. How DNA Can Transform African-American Family History … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Education, genealogy research, Genealogy Tips & Best Practices Tagged With: Genealogy Articles, genealogy research, top 10

5 Keys to Finding Scottish Ancestors with Genealogist Jamie Kay

March 6, 2023 by Jamie - Legacy Tree Genealogists Researcher 11 Comments

Scottish Ancestors

We sat down to learn more about finding Scottish ancestors with one of our professional genealogists, Jamie Kay. Here's what we learned about Jamie and how to research your own Scottish heritage. The Challenges of Finding Scottish Ancestors I grew up around the corner from Aunt Dorothy, our family genealogist, and loved to hear our stories and see the photographs she had collected. My great-grandparents came to the United States from Scotland in the 1870s, so a quarter of my heritage is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: British Isles, Church Records, Europe, Genealogy Education, Genealogy Records and Resources, genealogy research, Genealogy Tips & Best Practices, Legacy Tree Genealogists, United Kingdom Tagged With: genealogy research, Scotland, Scottish Clan

How Genealogy Research Provides Comfort After a DNA Surprise

November 21, 2022 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 4 Comments

DNA Surprises

A DNA Surprise is an event in a person's life where they find out their parentage is not what they had always believed. In this article we talk with Right to Know founder Kara Rubinstein Deyerin about her own DNA Surprise and how genealogy research and other tools can provide comfort during this challenging experience.  Tell us how you felt when you had a DNA surprise.   I felt like a unicorn. Who grows up thinking they are half Black and learns they're not? I felt very much alone when I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption & Genetic Genealogy, DNA Research, forensic genealogist, Legacy Tree Affiliates Tagged With: adoption, Biological Family, DNA, Dna surprise, DNA testing, genealogy research, Unknown parentage

Legacy Tree Onsite in Istria, Croatia: One Peninsula, Three Identities

July 23, 2020 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 3 Comments

Legacy Tree Genealogists works with researchers from across the globe to access records for our clients. We asked one of our onsite researchers located in Istria, Croatia, to share some of the nuances of genealogical research in Istria. Istria is a peninsula in the Adriatic Sea belonging to Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. Its name derives from the name of the tribe Histri. When the Roman army invaded their capital in 177 BC, the Histrian king Epulon, his guard and their families committed mass … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Onsite, Onsite Tagged With: ancestry, archives, Croatia, family history, genealogy, genealogy research, Istria, Legacy Tree Onsite, onsite, records

The Genealogy Research Process: 5 Steps to Maximize Your Research

June 19, 2020 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 3 Comments

genealogy research process

We outline the 5 steps in the genealogy research process that will help you maximize your research efforts. When researching your family history, have you ever asked yourself: “Where do I even start?!” Or, in the thick of researching have you ever thought: “What do I do next?” or “How do I know what I’ve found is correct?” These are questions we’ve all asked ourselves in one form or another at some point. Genealogy can be overwhelming and sometimes that feeling of being overwhelmed turns … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Records and Resources, Methodology Tagged With: evidence analysis, family history, family tree, genealogists, genealogy, genealogy records, genealogy report, genealogy research, genealogy research process, genealogy resources, research conclusions, research plan

How Do I Determine Genetically Equivalent Relationships?

November 15, 2019 by Paul - Legacy Tree Genealogists Researcher 81 Comments

free downloadable family history chart

An understanding of genealogical relationships is necessary before diving into genetically equivalent relationships in your family history. This article will provide an overview of both concepts. Correctly evaluating shared DNA within the context of genetically equivalent relationships first requires mastery of genealogical relationships. Here we review important genealogical relationships based on some of the pertinent variables. For the sake of simplicity, we limit our analysis to biological … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption & Genetic Genealogy, Methodology Tagged With: charts, DNA, family history, genealogy research, genetic genealogy

Putting the “Story” Back in Family History

September 20, 2019 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 7 Comments

putting the story back in family history

Whether you want to build your family history with as many names and dates as possible, or choose to instead focus on discovering the stories and details of your ancestors' lives, there's no right or wrong goal. It's about choosing what's important to you. Choosing How to Build Your Family History As project managers, one of the questions we ask our clients is whether they want us to build their family trees as quickly as we can, only including biographical material if it is of unusual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Tips & Best Practices, Writing a Family History Tagged With: family history, family history stories, family tree, genealogy research, professional genealogist

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