I’ve been planning and organizing family reunions with my mom, aunts, cousins and siblings for well over 20 years now, and just this last month I sent out invitations to three such events. If I said it was getting easier …
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The Daniel Boone Regional Library currently subscribes to two databases that can help you locate information about your family members who might have taken part in or been affected by the Civil War and its aftermath: HeritageQuest (which I will …
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I will confess that I never gave my father a book for Father’s Day. The only books I did give him were family and local histories, and he enjoyed them. Instead of a day for reading, Father’s Day was a …
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For genealogists, family historians and the curious, a long wait is over. The opening of the 1940 census–after the 72-year waiting period–has arrived. The National Archives decided for the first time, in this technological age, to put the scanned and digitized …
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Now that you have done all your homework on home sources and started researching print resources and online records, the next thing to do is begin organizing that information. You might as well do it now before you have tons …
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In our last lesson I focused on print resources you can find in your library. Many libraries—including DBRL—now offer their patrons access to even more genealogical records with online subscriptions to the library edition of Ancestry.com (available within the library) …
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