Genealogy blogs that I enjoy GeneaBloggers – this membership site encourages genealogists to share their family history with others and to support bloggers with sharing their blogs. The Armchair Genealogist – Lynn Palermo created this blog to share her passion for genealogy with others. She has great information on blogging, writing family history, and organisation as well as much, much more. The Genealogy…
Category: Genealogy Websites
Birth, Marriage, Death Records
There are many websites worldwide you can explore Birth, Marriage, and Death Records. Click on a link to start searching for your ancestors today. Australia Ancestry is a fee-based genealogy website that holds Australian BDM indexes. Australasia Births, Deaths, Marriages Exchange – this site based in Australia lists people able to look-up repositories they have access to for others who…
Find My Past vs Ancestry
Today I am going to compare two highly popular genealogy websites – Find My Past vs Ancestry. These sites allow users to conduct genealogical searches and access historical records in relation to their ancestry. They require people to join, and whilst you can build your family tree and search for free in order to access the full records, you require…
How to Find My Ancestors
More than likely the reason you have found my site is that you are trying to find your ancestors. After all, why would you search for a genealogy website if you didn’t want to know about your ancestors? In many years of undertaking research, I have ancestors I have found with no problem and then others who, no matter…
An Introduction to Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is a genealogy website that millions of people worldwide use to research their family history every day. The site holds billions of records and continues to add more searchable content every day. This means that just because you couldn’t find your ancestor last year there is always a possibility the record has been added since. It’s just a…
Genealogy Websites
The internet has been a boon for family historians by bringing the repositories, to a degree, to them. This list is by no means exhaustive but I have aimed to bring you some very good starting points for your beginning research. I will continue to add to these pages regularly so click on a link to find sites that will…
Prisons and Convicts
We are very lucky that some of the best records kept in history are in regards to people who broke the law. Many records survive today and give us a wealth of information about our lawless ancestor. Here are some websites that will help you to find them. Australia Australian Convict Sites – a listing…