When Was the Last Time You Thanked Your Genealogy Librarian? | AF-1323

I was thinking recently about all the libraries I have visited over the years while doing genealogy research. Some had large genealogy departments. Others had a small genealogy or local history room tucked away somewhere, with a few shelves of books, family histories, cemetery records, old newspapers, and whatever else they had managed to collect.

Sometimes it wasn’t even a room. It might have been a few shelves along one wall...

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What My German Research Changed About the Way I Do Genealogy | AF-1322

German genealogy changed the way I research. I didn’t plan on changing anything. At first, I was simply trying to follow another branch of my family tree, but I soon found that some of the habits that worked well for me in American records wouldn’t get me very far. A name, an approximate birth year, and a record saying someone came from Germany still weren’t enough information to know where to look next...

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