Company offers colorizing of black-and-white photos!

I’ve been meaning to dive into Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” for what seems like 52 years. Finally, even though we are already a few weeks in...

Often when people start their family history research, they concentrate on direct lineage: paternal, of their father's father and back into time, or maternal...

Hi. I'm Phyllis. I'm a Photo-holic. Indeed, if there was a 12-step program for this, I would be attending meetings daily. I hesitate to guess how many I've c...

A step-by-step look at how I helped a second cousin find her paternal biological family.

How to use Shaky Leaf Hints at Ancestry as clues for your research subject.

Join me as I write about genetic genealogy tools and topics, traditional research methods and more each week in 2020!

So, let's get down to it. How does this DNA matching work? First, a centiMorgan is a unit of measurement used to determine the distance from scientifically i...

The popularity of DNA testing has surged in the past few years, and companies such as AncestryDNA, 23andMe and Family Tree DNA are reaping the benefits. In 2...

Like the old adage says, "Buyer beware." Even if you aren't actually spending money to obtain family history information, it's still prudent to pay close att...

A friend of mine, Karen, had me come over to her house to go through a bunch of great Madison photographs that they had found years ago, cleaning out her fat...

Today I was asked a question from someone who is trying to prove a relationship within his family: "How can DNA tell me I'm related to someone if that person...

So, perusing eBay and looking for items that might be interesting from my home county, I typed "Van Wert" into the search engine and found what might be the ...

Ok, yeah. That's a geeky title, but maybe it got your attention. Photographic History Today's blog post has to do with photographs and photographers. For sta...

In my last post, I discussed the latest addition to my photography collection: Old glass negatives from 1900. From the information written on the paper sleev...