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How to Find Tricky & Common Ancestor Names in Newspapers
How to Find Tricky & Common Ancestor Names in Newspapers was originally published at .Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In...
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Guide to Ancestor Middle Name Research for Genealogy
Guide to Ancestor Middle Name Research for Genealogy was originally published at .Introduction: Duncan Kuehn is a professional genealogist with over eight years of client experience. She has worked on...
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Ancestral Name Searches: 4 Tips for Tracing Surname Spellings
Ancestral Name Searches: 4 Tips for Tracing Surname Spellings was originally published at . Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background....
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Are You Sure That Is How to Spell Your Ancestor’s Name?
Are You Sure That Is How to Spell Your Ancestor’s Name? was originally published at . Portraits of my Starbird ancestors hang on our wall on the landing at the top of the staircase. Over the years I...
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How to Find Tricky & Common Ancestor Names in Newspapers
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary provides some tips and tricks to find ancestors that are...
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Guide to Ancestor Middle Name Research for Genealogy
Introduction: Duncan Kuehn is a professional genealogist with over eight years of client experience. She has worked on several well-known projects, such as “Who Do You Think You Are?” and researching...
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Ancestral Name Searches: 4 Tips for Tracing Surname Spellings
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary explains that ancestral surnames may have been spelled...
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Are You Sure That Is How to Spell Your Ancestor’s Name?
Portraits of my Starbird ancestors hang on our wall on the landing at the top of the staircase. Over the years I have chained the family back from Martha Jane (Starbird) Richmond (1836-1905) to Robert...
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Genealogy Mystery: Where’s Her Brother Tom?
I was reviewing old family correspondence to make sure all of this family data had been properly recorded, and the correspondence scanned and added to the family’s online archive. I came across this...
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Genealogy Tip: What’s His Name Again?
Genealogists pay careful attention to names, searching diligently to find the complete names of every relative. But sometimes those names have been changed. Recently actor David Hasselhoff changed his...
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Genealogy Tips: Searching for Your Ancestors Using Nicknames
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this blog article, Gena shows how expanding your name searches to include nicknames can...
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Finding Bion Whitehouse: How Initials Can Help Your Ancestry Search
I have been looking at my Whitehouse cousins of Keene, New Hampshire, this week and was wrapping up the details of Bion Huntley Whitehouse (1858-1929) and his wife Mabel Medora (Wilder) Whitehouse...
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Do You Have Relatives Named after Famous People?
I hear from distant cousins every week. This week I was contacted by a “new” Sawyer family cousin that wrote me to compare notes on our mutual family history. Photo: Elbridge Gerry and Julia Clifford...
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8 Genealogy Tips for Tracing Female Ancestry
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, to celebrate March being National Women’s History Month, Mary...
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Pitoni: ‘What’s In a Name’?
Ven Pitoni (1912-1999) had a long-running syndicated column “What’s In a Name?” that gives good insights for family historians. Source: GenealogyBank.com, Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Washington), 9...
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Most Common U.S. Last Names: Finding Nemo – and Every Smith, Miller and Buckner
Whether you’re looking for William Nemo who was “shot and instantly killed about 10 o’clock last night” in Anaconda, Montana, as reported in the 24 June 1903 Anaconda Standard… …or Boyd C. Buckner who...
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Genealogy Tips: How Popular Is That First Name?
Introduction: In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about the most popular first names in the U.S. over the past century, decade by decade. Gena is a genealogist and author of the book “From...
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U.S. Census Bureau: The Most Popular Surnames
Introduction: In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega examines records from the U.S. Census Bureau to see what are the most popular surnames in the United States. Gena is a genealogist and author of the...
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A Genealogist Has Fun with Names & Mistaken Identities
Introduction: In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak shares some of the newspaper articles she’s found that report on “name doppelgangers.” Mary is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong...
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Using Search Variations to Find Missing Information about a Relative
My cousin Henry Hamilton Starbird was born in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, in February 1816, and he married Hope P. Cobb on 30 November 1845 in Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine. I recently wrote about my...
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