My genealogy speaking calendar is updated

My next two presentations are:  The afternoon of May 13th, I am doing a basic Family History Research session in-person here in Minnesota about 40 minutes from where I live. It is sponsored by the St. Michael-Albertville Community Education and the Crow River Senior Center. It is designed for beginners or those genealogists who need […]

Never had a Legacy Family Tree Webinars Membership? 50% off for new members,

New members get a full year of Legacy Family Tree Webinars for just $25—a 50% discount. It includes access to 2,700+ webinars, 56 AI classes, and 11,000+ syllabus pages.Offer ends Sunday, May 3! Join here using my affiliate link:  https://familytreewebinars.com/checkout?ref=566036 Have you been watching the webinars for free when first offered but want to watch it […]

Join me May 1 for genealogy webinar on State Archives and Branch Archives

I am thrilled to announce that I’ll be doing a brand new free and live webinar the afternoon of Friday, May ,1, 2026 for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. My topic is Insight into State Archives: ARCs, IRADs, ONAHRs, and Other Branches and there will be a syllabus of six pages for those who are members […]

Are you ready for the GRIP course Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, Skills? Info part 2.

Have researched basic censuses, some vital records, and some newspaper research. Imagine going further into these and then finding more after some sessions. Need ideas for where more records can be found online and in libraries, archives, courthouses, and other places? Know that keeping track of where you found a record is vital and you […]

Register for an intermediate level genealogy course that is Digging Deeper? Definitely.

I’ve had several questions about the course Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills that is part of the virtual week of learning via the GRIP Genealogy Institute this June 22-26. Others may need the same information. This is a rather long post, but it should help. I’ve pulled this out of some responses to emails […]

Keeping aware of updates on genealogy websites

Do you check for updates on genealogy related websites? If not, you might miss a new or expanded collection, indexing, or AI search capability on something for records of a city, county, state, province, or country that you have been hoping for. Reading the blogs, e-newsletters, and free social media of these free and subscription […]

New video tutorials for Chronicling America newspapers

The Library of Congress has new video tutorials about using the great newspaper collection called Chronicling America. The collection is huge, searching is a bit discombombulated after a recent updating but generally falls into place after a few searches. Thankfully these new aids will help further! I know what I am going to be watching […]

FamilySearch and New York state library and archives work together

Due to moving out of my apartment and still unpacking (and trying to figure out where some things are) I am behind in sharing press releases related to history and genealogy. It’s likely you read about this collaboration a few days ago, but in case you didn’t, please read on. Press releases were received from […]