by Lady Kathleen | Feb 12, 2019 | Genealogy News
As a beginner in genealogy, you may have found several family trees online that appear to relate to your ancestors, or they include many of the same names. The details seem more or less right with what you have found to date, although perhaps a few names do not quite...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 9, 2019 | Genealogy News
Starting to trace your ancestors, you may have quickly realized that it can be very challenging to identify which William Brooks is your ancestor, when there are three or four in the right town in the right decade! Sometimes it seems the only thing to do is to slog...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 8, 2019 | Compton / Hamilton, Staveness
For years I have been on the search for this connection. I have gotten close, so now I am asking you for help with this one. The search all started 30 years ago when my daughter Rebecca and my son Jon were very young.   I had recently married Marlin Staveness while...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 6, 2019 | Genealogy News
Now that you have gathered together the names and important dates of your relatives in a near branch of your family tree, what should come next? In all likelihood your data has been compiled in note-books form, with expanding files and box files. You may also have...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 3, 2019 | Family Genealogy
When you start thinking about building your family tree it can get over whelming and hectic to think of it in terms of numbers. Each ancestor generation doubles in numbers. So you start with YOU that is 1 Your parents Generation that is 2 Your Grandparents...