Tag: newspapers

Records that Will Help You Find Your Women Ancestors

Written by Tiffany on May 13, 2022.

Today we are taking a deeper dive into the records that will help you find your women ancestors. We all know how difficult it can be to find women in historical records. They changed their surname when they married, they were often not mentioned in records, or their husband was mentioned instead. So some records are easy to find such as census records,...

6 Practical Genealogy Things to Gift Yourself this Year

Written by Tiffany on November 20, 2020.

Alright all you family historians out there! This one’s for you! What gifts do you gift yourself? Are they all fun or are they super practical or both? Do you give yourself permission to buy gifts for you or do you give them to others? Yes, you can find amazing joy in giving the right gift to others, but don’t forget about yourself....

How History Creates Records for Genealogy

Written by Tiffany on October 9, 2020.

Genealogists have a practice of looking at a historical event and seeing what records this created for genealogy purposes. Looking at history with a genealogical perspective is an important skill. We have been going through some major events in 2020, haven’t we? What records do you think will be created because of COVID and other events?Let’s...

How I Use Historical Newspapers for Genealogy

Written by Tiffany on August 7, 2020.

Sometimes, as genealogists, we want to put more life to an ancestor’s life other than names and dates. They aren’t personal to us until there’s a story behind that data. One of the tools that I use to bring stories to an ancestor’s life is by using historical newspapers. Now we use newspapers for a variety of reasons. Sometimes...