by Lady Kathleen | Jan 20, 2019 | Genealogy News
The Social Security Death Index, commonly referred to as the SSDI, is a database containing the names and dates of birth and death for over 77 million Americans. This massive database is a wonderful resource for genealogists, and is available in many online locations...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 19, 2019 | Genealogy News
Are you looking for someone? A former classmate? Old friend? Military buddy? Birth parent? Lost relative? If so, then you’re not alone. Thousands of people head online every day in search of details on missing people. And more and more of these people are...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 18, 2019 | Genealogy News
Records of Intentions to Marry Marriage Banns — Banns, sometimes spelled bans, were public notice of an intended marriage between two specified persons on a particular date. Banns began as a church custom, later proscribed by English common law, that required the...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 15, 2019 | Genealogy News
Pictures are a wonderful way to document , from scenic views of the cemetery, to inscriptions of individual tombstones. It isn’t always as easy as it seems, however, to achieve sharp, clear photographs of stones that may be centuries old. That old stone may be...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 13, 2019 | Genealogy News
Coming from the medieval French word ‘surnom’ translating as “above-or-over name,” surnames or descriptive names trace their use in France back to 11th century, when it first became necessary to add a second name to distinguish between...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 12, 2019 | Genealogy News
Building your family tree is like building a house, brick by brick. The bricks are your ancestors, their names, life events and details. But the mortar that holds the bricks together is absolutely essential, if that house is going to stand up. What is the...
