Helping the present understand the past
The last three weeks we’ve talked about birth, marriage and death records. These three types of vital records are the records most genealogists think about when you say the words “vital records”. But there’s a fourth type of vital record that isn’t immediately thought of: divorce records. Obviously divorce records aren’t going to exist for…
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve talked about birth records and marriage records, which can be used in your genealogy. Today I want to talk about death records. Before getting started I want to rewind to last week’s post about marriage records. In that post I neglected to mention a valuable piece of information. …
Today we’re continuing to talk about vital records. Last week we talked about birth certificates and some of the information you can find on them. This week we’re going to talk about marriage records. If you’ve been married you know how obtaining a marriage license works. You fill out an application, get the license, the…
Last week we talked a little bit about genealogy basics and how to get started. In that post I touched on some different records available for genealogical use. The next few posts are going to discuss what those records are and what information can be extracted from them. The first records we talked about were…
A friend and I were talking the other day and she mentioned she might be interested in learning more about her family’s genealogy. She asked me, “How would I get started?” I gave her the same answer I’d heard every genealogist and genealogy class instructor give: “You start with yourself.” “Well what does that mean?”…