Now more than ever you can find your ancestors doing your research online. This video explains how to narrow your searches with Google to get the best results.

Now you can pinpoint John Hughes in a specific area or time frame instead of 3000 around the world. This is just another tool to help you dig up your past.

Many of us are fascinated with our family history. Learning where we came from, as far back as possible, can be both fun and challenging. Putting together a complete family history is a very time consuming undertaking. To do a thorough job will take hours of research. A task that shouldn’t be hurried, but a journey through history to be savored and enjoyed.

The first place to start the journey is in our own home or the home’s of our relatives. There you can find a wealth of information. Documents, pictures, jewelry (possibly inscribed), old letters, diaries, vintage clothing, family bibles with births, deaths, and marriages recorded, and school yearbooks are all pieces of the ancestral puzzle. Hopefully, many of them will have been passed along marked with dates which will help in the chronological order of the pictures and documents. (more…)