How to Date Old Family Photographs

Great-Grandma's family collection of antique pictures can be a treasure trove for you, the genealogy researcher-especially if you can establish when an antique picture was taken.

Dating a photograph can help you identify the subject(s) (in early photography the subjects were referred to as sitters) and can provide additional information as you piece together your family tree.

There are some basic techniques to begin the process of dating an antique picture. Click Here

Follow Siblings' Records

Records of siblings may include valuable references to the ancestor you are researching. Sometimes when you hit a "dead end" it is helpful to locate records of your ancestor's brother or sister, and follow their paper trail until you locate common ancestors. A sibling's obituary...

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Five Steps to Organizing Your Research

In genealogy we have many problems, too many to work on all at once. We are most likely to find solutions if we focus on a single problem and stick with it until we reach a conclusion, either by finding the solution or by admitting that we can't do any more on it right now.

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Holocaust: Schindler's Lists

This database includes 1,980 names of individuals combined from two separate lists that Oscar Schindler kept of his Jewish work force. Information listed includes: name, birth year, camp, occupation, and gender.

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Schindler's Lists

Honoring Those Who Serve

They called it “The Great War” and it was to be “The War to End All Wars.” Tomorrow will mark the ninetieth anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. There is no shortage of information on the war that ravaged much of Europe between 1914 and 1918 and dramatically changed the map. As with most wars, many books have been written, movies and mini-series made, and websites launched chronicling the conflict.

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Discover your Jewish family story.

We’ve partnered with JewishGen® and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to create the world’s largest online collection of Jewish historical records. Discover more of your story in the new Jewish Family History Collection.

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