Here, learn about five family history challenges that you can participate it, by yourself or with a group, to learn and inspire your genealogy research.

Senior family members are often the best genealogy resource. Here are family history interview questions to ask to discover more about generations past.

Are you short on time when it comes to your genealogy research? You're an Occasional Genealogist! Here are 50 suggestions for gene...

Celebrate Easter through celebrating your eternal family ties

Finding out about your family’s history can be an exciting endeavor. Keeping track of all the information and placing it all into some kind of organized fashion however, can be quite a task. There are so many Genealogy websites, software programs and ways to store your findings that it can become overwhelming. It is sometimes hard to determine what should be included in your Family Tree and what isn’t necessary...

If you want to find out more about your family, download the life history questions and make time to interview your family members. Learn some fun facts.

There are many free genealogy sites available on the web. Here is a handy reference of 10 of the largest and most useful free family history resources.

Play one of these great family history games this Easter!

Review some of the social customs and life styles of your ancestors. Some family history of your ancestors may surprise or shock you.

Hindsight is always 20/20, don’t you think? It’s pretty easy to take a long look back and see the error of our ways. If we had that extraordinary vision, we might save ourselves countless hours of aimless research. Having worked on my own family tree or maybe “tangle of roots,” for over thirty years now, I have come to realize that my missteps may indeed be beneficial to others. In other words, “do as I say, not as I do.” Hindsight is always 20/20, don’t you think? It’s pretty easy to take a long look back and see the error of our ways. If we had that extraordinary vision, we might save ourselves countless hours of aimless research. Having worked on my own family tree or maybe “tangle of roots,” for over thirty years now, I have come to realize that my missteps may indeed be beneficial to others. In other words, “do as I say, not as I do.”

Make Instant Discoveries About Your Ancestors Here Here are 15 of our favorite quotes about family history. We hope you enjoy them! 1. Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson … 15 Genealogy Quotes We Love Read More »

My husband's grandfather was an Orphan Train child. I often have visions of this grubby little urchin rambling through the streets of New York City. I envision him scrounging through the garbage for a morsel of food, huddling in a corner to keep warm and getting into a fight over a penny.

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Genealogy podcasts are a truly entertaining way to learn more about family history research, but a surprising number of people overlook them. Here's how to take part.

Use this printable family interview to record memories and stories from parents grandparents or other relatives. It's great for kids and adults alike!

From basic vital statistics to your ancestors' occupations - have you gathered these 10 important facts for every individual in your family tree?

General Conference is only a month a way! How can that be?!? We are still working our way using as many talks as we can for Family Night. It has been such a wonderful experience. I have gained so much rereading and studying these talks from conference. I hope my family has too. Last week we focused on Elder Renlunds' talk Family History and Temple Work: Sealing and Healing. You can find all of the free printables in the download at the end of this post. Here's my outline (these are quotes from the talk) Temple blessing activity. Print and cut apart the list of blessings. Put them in a jar or print and put together this cute temple box found here. I copied and pasted in a word document and sized it to fill the page. Put the slips of paper inside and take turns drawing and reading the blessings. Ask the following question and write in the answers on the page. We keep ours displayed on the fridge. We have younger kids and were still able to come up with a pretty good sized list. Our final activity was was a temple match game. Print both pages on cardstock and have fun. Download your FHE pack here You can find our other General Conference Family Home Evening here. Adorable graphics from Melonheadz, LDS.org, & Mather's Music . Fonts by Hello Literacy

I have a great family history activity for children to share today – teaching children to find names for the temple by doing family history research with historical records! The activity was …

The Free BMD Index and British GRO Guide. How to find and use the free BMD indexes as well as ordering records directlt from the GRO

Do the words “plan a Family History Fair'” fill you with dread and uncertainty? You may have a large event focused on genealogy and family history looming, or you may be asked to organi…

An Amazing Free British Genealogy Resource: The Gazette. This post looks at the often overlooked family history resource covering 350 years.

Family History Ideas for Children and Teens A collection of over 270 articles and blog posts with ideas for teaching, doing, and sharing family history with children and teens. To contribute more i…

Learn the 4 must include things you need to include in an engaging genealogy and family history book.

Do you need some fun activities for your next family get-together? Try these ideas and get to know your family a little better.

Record your family's special events, precious memories, and day-to-day activities with this simple, no stress family journal binder.

Check out some creative family tree ideas in this post. Encourage your children to make DIY family tree projects and know more about their family members.

By asking the right, open-ended questions, you're sure to collect a wealth of family tales. Discover fifty diverse questions to help you get started.

Get answers to 7 popular ancestry questions novice researchers, including myself, ask.

Genealogy organization. How important is it? If you're trying to build an accurate family tree, the simple answer is very. No matter what stage of the journey you find yourself in, chances are you need a reliable and accessible way to organize your research.

As you progress with your research, recording family history should become an integral part of your process, and you should choose a system that is easy for you, and others, to understand. There are many ways you can organise your genealogical research, such as using a filing system or computer program and making notes using

Senior family members are often the best genealogy resource. Here are 20 family history interview questions to ask to discover more about generations past.

Discover your family's past with this free Family History Kit. The fun activity sheets help you learn about your ancestors and celebrate your family traditions.

Looking for a family tree template for your genealogy research, class project or to frame as a gift? We've done our research and come up with some free printable and interactive family tree templates that are perfect for just about any need.

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Obituaries are genealogy gold dust. You can learn key details about their life. Here’s how to find obituaries and how to use the clues in them.

Family History is fun! Here are two ideas on how to make family history come to life: making family trees & creating timelines of ancestors.

The dictionary tells us that being invisible is being inconspicuous, unobtrusive, and unnoticeable. From a researcher’s point of view, tracing the life movements of invisible women creates many challenges.

You hear the grumbles and the sighs as you tell your family to read their family history. They say they are not interested, and they would rather watch the grass grow. How can this be when it’s their legacy?!? There are likely two reasons why the family history book you want your family to read does not generate positive feelings. The first is the book is too large, and the second is what you created is boring. Reduce the Size of Your Family History Just as not everyone likes reading history, ma

Search PERSI for free at Findmypast to identify articles that may be related to your family history like local history details, family profiles and more.

Make sure you leave behind a personal history for your posterity - here are a few ways to record personal history. There's something for everyone!