The Joyous Living

When doing family research, you will find dozens of websites and resources available for purchase. But which ones do you trust? Which ones do you use? For today’s A to Z Challenge, I wanted to share about the questionable “GenealogyBank” subscription site. GenealogyBank: Claim to Exclusiveness GenealogyBank is a leading online genealogical resource from NewsBank,…

In today’s post I would like to propose (1) why you should consider becoming a contributor on Find a Grave for your family’s memorials, (2) why you should not brush aside Find a Grave as a viable resource, and (3) why you must be on your guard for faulty “facts” when researching the site.

My great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Eberle faced the worst kind of treatment from her neighbors and friends when they accused her son of being a German spy/traitor.

When researching your family’s lineage, you are probably at one point or another going to ask yourself “am I descended from royalty?” or “do i have royal blood?” and the most likely answer is – YES. Talk about a twisted feeling. In part you get to joke with your significant other that you’re royal while…

Census Day 2020 has come and gone. Are you breathing a sigh of relief? Were you disappointed by the survey questions asked? I confess that after years of researching my family history and looking at historical census records, I was thoroughly disappointed by the 2020 census. None of the questions I was accustomed to were…

Good morning. Are you enjoying my 2020 A to Z Challenge so far? I hope you’ve taken the plunge with me and started your 14 day trial of Ancestry.com so we can go through this together. Maybe we’ll even discover a common ancestor! One ancestor that I know I share with tens of thousands of…

Need a new at home hobby while cooped up at home? How about researching your family history with a free 14 day trial of Ancestry.com?