Research Tips and Tricks for Family Historians

Get more from your genealogy discoveries with these tips, tricks and processes.

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Sooner or later, every family historian is going to hit a genealogy brick wall. Try these processes to try and find a way through yours.

Stop conducting the same search over and over again. Use genealogy checklists (& other printable tools) to track your searches as you go.

Public family trees (including yours) on sites like Ancestry has a bad reputation. Make them work for you instead with these four tips.

We all know we might find research clues online, but how about in your personal or heirloom mementos? Find out where to search next.