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Oregon Trail Ancestry: Did Your Ancestors Travel the Trail?
What was the Oregon Trail? Here's what you need to know about this important part of American History, and how you can discover whether your ancestors traveled it.
3 Overlooked Clues in Genealogical Documents
Are you looking at a genealogy brick wall? Here are three hidden clues you can often find in genealogical documents that will let you break through it.
Resource Guide to Canadian Genealogy
Do you have Canadian ancestors you wish to research? Are you wondering where to start? This list gives you five of the best websites for doing Canadian genealogy online.
How to Use Family Lore to Discover the Real Stories
How true are your family's legends? Most have at least a grain of truth in them. Here's how to use family stories as jumping off points to get the real truth behind the legends of your ancestors.
How to Do Everything: Genealogy
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Discover your genealogy using the latest methods Thoroughly revised to cover new tools, techniques, and data, How to Do Everything: Genealogy, Fourth...
Finding Your Hispanic Roots
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Finding Your Hispanic Roots is quite possibly the most useful manual on Hispanic ancestry ever published. Building on the previously published Tracing Your...
Paid Military Record Lookups
Welcome to the Paid Military Record Lookups section. Many of these records are available for free on AncestralFindings.com in the Free Military Record Lookups section. Please note that the links...
Genealogy Research Tips
Tricks for Finding the Unknown Burial Location of an Ancestor 3 Ways to Be Constantly Improving Your Genealogy Research 3 Online Genealogy Classes You Can Take to Improve Your Skills 3 Genealogy...
Top 10 Genealogy Reference Books (plus 5 more)
I couldn't find myself stopping with only 10 genealogical books. There've been so many books that have helped me in my personal genealogy research in the past 25 years.
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This Weeks Free Lookups (July 20)
Church Records: Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, 1729-1881 Church records such as those included here are among the best sources for information on births, marriages, and deaths...