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Reasonably Exhaustive Research: The First Criteria for Genealogical Proof
Finding Immigrants Who ‘Disappeared’: A Research Approach Based on Recognizing and Challenging Assumptions
Share and Share Alike: The Rules of Genealogical Privacy
Details of New and Modified DNA-Related Standards
How to Write a Case Study that Meets the New Standards for DNA: As Codified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists
Reconstructing an Entrepreneurial Woman’s Life: From Family Intrigue to Water Rents
 
 

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Free Civil Registration in Australia
Free Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
Free MyHeritage DNA 101
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Free Thankful villages - the impact of World War One on communities
Free Empower yourself with the MyHeritage DNA Health test
Free How to Use Dutch Parish Records from the 17th and 18th Century
Free Researching a Hessian Soldier
Free Researching Scandinavian Ancestors? It's Amazing What You Can Learn
Free The Third Coast: How the Great Lakes Shaped America
Free Using Google Drive to Solve Research Challenges
Free The Coded Census: Deciphering US Census
Free Advanced Features on MyHeritage.com
Free The Science of Family History
Free “My Ancestors were Normans” – Oh really? Prove it!
Free How Do I Know It’s Correct: Evidence and Proof
Free Not Who He Once Was: Tips for Finding Your Name-Changing Ancestor
Free A Vast and Virtual Genealogical Library is Waiting for Your Exploration
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Free Advanced Googling for Your Grandma
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Techniques for Integrating Documentary and Genetic Information in a Research Report
A Convincing Argument or a Convoluted Mess
Creative Hypothesis Development for Complex Genealogy Problems
Marriages Here, There, and Nowhere: Finding Gretna Greens and Borders
Native American Research: Things You May Not Know
Reasonably Exhaustive Research: The First Criteria for Genealogical Proof
Finding Immigrants Who ‘Disappeared’: A Research Approach Based on Recognizing and Challenging Assumptions
Share and Share Alike: The Rules of Genealogical Privacy
Details of New and Modified DNA-Related Standards
How to Write a Case Study that Meets the New Standards for DNA: As Codified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists
Reconstructing an Entrepreneurial Woman’s Life: From Family Intrigue to Water Rents
Ten Tools for Genealogical Writing
Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands
Using Another Library Source: the Government Document Section
Valid and Unsound Assumptions: What Was She Thinking?
Transcribing Documents: There is More Than Meets the Eye!
The Five-story Fall: Correlating Indirect and Direct Evidence to Extend the Pedigree
Applying Evidence to Genealogical Research Questions
Visualizing Information for Genealogists
Proving Identity and Kinship Using the GPS: Finding a Freedman's Family
Every Day Life of Our Ancestors
Deeper Analysis: Techniques for Successful Problem Solving
John Jacob Kramer: Case Study of Mistaken Identity among Revolutionary War Soldiers
Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events
The Discriminating Genealogist: Telling Good Evidence from Bad
Past Conflict Repatriation: The Role of Genealogists and Methodology in Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise
Using Emigrant Guides for Genealogical Research
Using Lists to Find Proof
GPS: Finding Your Way Through Tough Research Problems
It's a Numbers Game! Understanding Recognized Genealogical Formats
Using Maps in Genealogical Research
Developing Good Research Habits
Better Together: Making Your Case with Documents and DNA
From Baltimore to Burlington: Hazen P. Day's Neighbors Bring Him Home
Using Swedish Taxation Records to Solve Tough Genealogical Problems
Finding Thomas' Father: an 18th Century Prince William County Virginia Case Study
The Law and the Reasonably Exhaustive (Re)Search
Research in Federal Records: Some Assembly Required
Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard
Sweden's Multiple Naming Systems and How They Changed in the 1800s
Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Families That Came Out of Slavery
Using Timelines for Correlation and Analysis
Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong, and Other Assorted Courthouse Records
Systematically Using Autosomal DNA Test Results to Help Break Through Genealogical Brick Walls
When Does Newfound Evidence Overturn a Proved Conclusion?
Analyzing Probate Records of Slaveholders to Identify Enslaved Ancestors
Analyzing Documents Sparks Ideas for Further Research
Beating the Bushes: Using the GPS to Find Jacob Bush's Father
MAXY DNA: Correlating mt-at-X-Y DNA with the GPS
The Genealogy in Government Documents
Are You My Grandpa? Men of the Same Name
Weaving DNA Test Results into a Proof Argument
Writing Up Your Research
No, no, Nanette! What negative evidence is . . . and isn't
Civil Law Notaries - Using Notarial Records to Build a Family History
Educational Preparation for Certification: Many Paths to the Same Goal
Enough is Enough. Or Is It?
Bringing Life to Our Ancestors: Manuscript Collections
FAN + GPS + DNA: The Problem-Solver's Great Trifecta
When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records
Black Sheep Ancestors and Their Records
Adoption for the Forensic Genealogist
Finding Evidence of Kinship in Military Records
Another Kind of Navigation: GPS for Genealogy
Truth or Fiction? Unraveling a Family Yarn
Finding Your Early 1800s US Ancestors Online
Genealogical Fingerprints: Merging and Separating Identities in Family History Research
The Importance of Context in Record Analysis
Diamonds in the Rough: Finding and Using Manuscript Collections
Applying the Standards to International Research
The Family Tapestry: Integrating Proof Arguments into the Genealogical Narrative
Elementary My Dear Watson! Solving Your Genealogy Puzzles with Clues You Already Have
Free Kinship Determination: From Generation to Generation
New Standards or Old? Guidelines for Effective Research and Family Histories
Free Thinking About Becoming a Board-certified Genealogist?
 
 

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Mistakes I Have Made: Confessions of a Repentant Genealogist
Getting Started in Family History - 4 - Documents
Getting Started in Family History - 5 - Vital Records
Getting Started in Family History - 6 - Census Records
Getting Started in Family History - 3 - Family Stories
Getting Started in Family History - 2 - Forms
Free Getting Started in Family History - 1- Home Sources
Secrets in the Attic: Break Down Brick Walls With Home Sources
Time and Place - Using Genealogy's Cross-Hairs
Genealogy 101, a 3-Session Course in Beginning Genealogy - Part 3
Genealogy 101, a 3-Session Course in Beginning Genealogy - Part 2
Genealogy 101, a 3-Session Course in Beginning Genealogy - Part 1
Genealogy for Novices: Where Do We Begin?
Ten Brick Wall Tips for Beginners
 
 

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Free Betty Jeans Story - Forensic Genealogy, DNA and Adoption
Why are My Siblings Ethnicity Results Different?
Techniques for Integrating Documentary and Genetic Information in a Research Report
Free MyHeritage DNA 101
Free Empower yourself with the MyHeritage DNA Health test
Free How DNA Influences our Identity
LucidChart and Other Tools for Genetic Genealogy
3 Genealogy DNA Case Studies and How I Solved Them
DNA Testing and Chemotherapy?
Introducing Y-DNA for autosomal DNA testers
Developing a DNA Testing Plan: a Guide for Beginners
Organizing Your DNA Results (updated!)
Free MyHeritageDNA for Your Family Knot
What are DNA Outliers?
DNA Triangulation
What Is DNA Segment Data?
What Is A Chromosome Browser?
GEDMatch Segment Search Tool (Tier 1)
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Free MyHeritage DNA - en oversikt
Free I Received DNA Matches, Now What?
The Fromelles Genealogy Project: Reuniting WW1 Soldiers with their Families
Famous DNA: Looking into the genetic history of Joseph Smith Jr., founder of Mormonism
Understanding Ethnicity Estimates
Using GenomeMate Pro & Other Tools
Irish Genealogies & DNA: Back into the Mythological Past
Exploring new Y-DNA Horizons with Big Y-700
Irish DNA Down Under
The DNA Journey: Perspectives from Irish Adoptees
Canadian Casualty Identification Program – using Databases to connect Families to Their Lost Soldiers
An Irish-Ukrainian Case Study
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Free The Tools at DNAgedcom & Genetic.Family
A Day Out With Your DNA
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Free MyHeritage ADN : les fonctionnalités avancées
Free (Italian) Come espandere la propria genealogia con il DNA
Advanced DNA Techniques: Using Phasing to Test DNA Segments
Free Formulating a DNA Testing Plan
Free Complementing Your DNA with Genealogy Research
Free Panel - DNA Testing for Health
Free What Exactly Is a Centimorgan?
Free Mapping Your DNA Matches on MyHeritage
Free Science for the non-Scientist: How Does MyHeritage Produce their DNA Results?
Free Using the Theory of Family Relativity to Research Your DNA Matches
Free PANEL: The Future of DNA Testing
Details of New and Modified DNA-Related Standards
How to Write a Case Study that Meets the New Standards for DNA: As Codified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists
Combining DNA and Traditional Research - In-Depth Case Studies
Free MyHeritage DNA - Ein Überblick
Case Studies in Gray: Identifying Shared Ancestries Through DNA and Genealogy
DNA, Genealogy, and Privacy: Handling the Double-Edged Sword
Free Introducing the MyHeritage DNA Health Test
Using DNA for Adoption & Unknown Parentage Work
Free (Dutch) Indische roots onderzoeken met behulp van MyHeritage DNA
Evaluating Shared DNA
Free (French) Initiation à MyHeritage ADN
Lessons in Jewish DNA: One Man's Successes and What He Learned On the Journey
How to Use Autosomal DNA to Resolve Historical Paternity Cases
Free (Swedish) Från DNA-match till släkting
Free Visualizing Ancestral Lines with DNA AutoClusters
Free An Introduction to DNA Painter
Free (Swedish) Hitta okänd familj med MyHeritage
Free Suggested Relationship Paths: An Inside Look at the Theory of Family Relativity™
A Guide to Third Party Tools For DNA Testing
Managing Your DNA Matches
DNA Successes of a non-DNA expert!
Using Y DNA testing to investigate Ulster and Scottish surnames
DNA Testing for Complete Beginners
Why Testing at Ancestry is Not Enough
Do You have the DNA of a Scottish Clan?
Reconstructing Your Genetic Family Tree
DNA and the GPS solves a mystery: Hamiltons in Colonial New England
Three DNA Tests = Three Times the Fun
DNA Rights and Wrongs: The Ethical Side of Testing
Free Why Take a DNA Test for Genealogy Research?
Free Two Ways to Approach Your MyHeritage DNA Match List
Free MyHeritage’s Improved DNA Matching
Free How to Find Unknown Family with MyHeritage DNA
Free MyHeritage LIVE 2018 Opening Session: A love affair with genealogy PLUS Industry-changing announcements
Free The Five Best MyHeritage DNA Tools
Free MyHeritage DNA 101
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Free PANEL: DNA, Genealogy, and Privacy
Free PANEL: What's Next for Genetic Genealogy?
Free Genetic Insights From a Huge Collaborative Family Tree
Free True Stories of Families Reunited thanks to Genetic Genealogy
Challenges with Irish Genetic Genealogy
The YDNA Test Should Be Your Favorite
The Family DNA Project
The First 5 Things to Do with Your New Test Results
Better Together: Making Your Case with Documents and DNA
DNA is Dynamite - How to Ignite Your Ancestral Research
Formulating a DNA Testing Plan
Free How DNA testing can reveal your ethnic roots
Introduction to DNA Testing in Genealogy and Family History
Free Hands-On with MyHeritage DNA
Free True Stories of Families Reunited Thanks to Genetic Genealogy
Free Perspectives on Combining Genealogy and Genetics
Let DNA Tell Your Story
Free Understanding DNA Matching technology
Introduction to the Use of Autosomal DNA Testing
Advanced Autosomal DNA Techniques used in Genetic Genealogy
Systematically Using Autosomal DNA Test Results to Help Break Through Genealogical Brick Walls
Who Are You? Identifying Your Mysterious DNA Matches
Avoiding Genetic Genealogy Pitfalls
DNA Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction to Gedmatch
Begging For Spit
Approaching and Connecting with Your DNA Matches
What Now? Your Next Steps with Autosomal DNA Testing
Genetic Genealogy: Advanced
How Harry Potter Can Teach You About DNA
Living DNA: Your Ancestry
MAXY DNA: Correlating mt-at-X-Y DNA with the GPS
Navigating YDNA at FamilyTreeDNA.com
Exploring AncestryDNA's New Genetic Communities
Free Introducing MyHeritage DNA
Finding Missing Persons With DNA Testing
Weaving DNA Test Results into a Proof Argument
The WHO of Genetic Genealogy
Opening Pandora's Box: Using DNA to Find an Unexpected, Improper Ancestor
Strategies to Find the Most Challenging Ancestors with Autosomal DNA Data
FAN + GPS + DNA: The Problem-Solver's Great Trifecta
Foundations in DNA 1 of 5: Genealogy and DNA
Foundations in DNA 2 of 5: DNA Overview
Foundations in DNA 3 of 5: Y-DNA
Foundations in DNA 4 of 5: Mitochondrial DNA
Foundations in DNA 5 of 5: Autosomal DNA
Watch Geoff Live: GEDmatch.com
Circles or Triangles? What Shape is Your DNA?
The Genetic Ancestry of Native Americans
Watch Geoff Live: DNA
Confirming Enslaved Ancestors Utilizing DNA
Making YDNA and mtDNA Part of Your Family History
Organizing Your Genetic Genealogy
I Had My DNA Tested - Now What?
Genealogy and Technology - State of the Union
The New Frontier in Genetic Genealogy: Autosomal DNA Testing
DNA Research for Genealogists: Beyond the Basics
The Power of DNA in Unlocking Family Relationships
 
 

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Free ‘Stop Thief!’: British Crimes and Punishment
Using South Australia Land Records
Organizing Your DNA Results (updated!)
Buried Treasures: What's in the English Parish Chest
Trove: An Australian and Beyond Genealogical Treasure
The Stories Behind the Segments
Are you Lost? Using Maps, Gazetteers and Directories for British Isles Research
Finding Families in New Zealand
Remedies for Copy & Paste Genealogy
They really didn't swim! Finding your ancestors in New South Wales colonial shipping records
English Parish Records: More than Hatch, Match and Dispatch
One Touch Genealogy Research: How to Handle a Record Just Once
Polled! Finding your Ancestors in New South Wales Colonial Muster and Census Returns
Six Feet Under Down Under
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Should You Take the Hint? Automatic Record Hinting on the Giant Genealogy Websites
Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage 2019 edition
Strategies for Using FamilySearch
Using FamilySearch Digital Microfilm to Find Genealogical Records
It's All In There - Navigating the FamilySearch Catalog
Digging for Historical Records on FamilySearch
Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage
Free The Increasing Need for Foreign Language Indexing
Free How to Use FamilySearch.org for Beginners
FamilyBrowse - Another Way to Look at FamilySearch.org
Free Billions of Records, Billions of Stories
Free Welcome to FamilySearch Indexing!
Free Legacy Family Tree and FamilySearch Family Tree
Digital Research Guidance, Research Logs, and To Do Lists: FamilySearch, Research Wiki, and Legacy Family Tree
Free What's New at FamilySearch
Free Research Wiki, Research Courses, and FamilySearch Forums
Free Improving Your Use of New FamilySearch: Data Cleanup Strategies
Free Helping Unlock the World's Records - FamilySearch Indexing for Power Users
 
 

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Finding What You Need at the National Archives, Part I: Navigating the NARA Website
Finding What You Need at the National Archives, Part II: Using NARA Finding Aids
Locating National Archives Resources with NARA’s Digitization Partners
Newspapers and Periodicals at the Library of Congress
Resources at the Library of Congress
Land Records at the National Archives, Part I: Land Entry Papers and Tract Books
Land Records at the National Archives, Part II: Federal Bounty Land
Accessing National Archives Military Records from Start to Finish
Mining Washington-area Map Repositories
A Genealogical Gem in DC: The DAR Library
African American Genealogy Resources at the Library of Congress
What Would You Do If You Had Five Days in Washington, DC?
 
 

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Free Using Google Drive to Solve Research Challenges
Free Advanced Googling for Your Grandma
Google Alerts: Get Notified of New Content on Google
Free Google Photos: one photo app to rule them all
Google Drive: an Office in the Cloud
Google for Genealogy: Search Tricks to Tease Out Information
Google Books: the tool you should use every day!
Virtual Family Reunions: Super Easy, Super Fun
Preserve, Share, and Search Your Digital Pictures with Google Photos
Create a Free Google Earth Historic Map Collection for Your Research
Organize Your Online Life
Google Drive for Genealogists
Mapping Madness
Free Billions of Records, Billions of Stories
Free Digital Family Reunions
New and Must-Have Google Tips for Genealogy
Googling with Geoff
Free Google Glass and Family History
Googling Around with Google and other Technology
Using Google Earth for Genealogy
You Use WHAT for Genealogy? Wonderful Uses for Unusual Tools
Google Search Strategies for Common Surnames
The Genealogy Cloud: Which Online Storage Program Is Right For You?
Staying Safe with Social Media
Google Images and Beyond
Google Forms for Genealogists
Backing up your genealogy data
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Watch Geoff Live: Adding a Will and a Tombstone to Legacy
Watch Geoff Live: Adding a World War I (and II) Draft Registration Card
Watch Geoff Live: Adding a Passenger Record
Watch Geoff Live: Adding a Newspaper
Using Pictures with Legacy Family Tree
Free Hands-On with Legacy Hints: Using MyHeritage Record Matches and Smart Matches
Free Discover the new Legacy Family Tree 9
Free What's New in Legacy Family Tree 9
Free Legacy Family Tree for Complete Beginners
Watch Geoff Live: Adding a City Directory
Watch Geoff Live - Using Legacy to Assemble a Family
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Free How to Import Family Tree Maker Files into Legacy Family Tree
10 Tips for Using Legacy with Specialized Studies
Using Legacy with Specialized Studies - Legacy is for more than your family history
Legacy Family Tree - Virtual User's Group Meeting
Legacy Family Tree - Virtual User's Group Meeting
Free Legacy Family Tree - an Overview
Free Legacy Family Tree - Beyond the Basics
Legacy Family Tree - Virtual User's Group Meeting
Legacy Family Tree - Virtual User's Group Meeting
Free Legacy Family Tree and FamilySearch Family Tree
Free Sources and Citations Made Simple, Standard, and Powerful
Free What's New in Legacy Family Tree 8?
Timelines and Chronologies - Secrets of Success
Digital Research Guidance, Research Logs, and To Do Lists: FamilySearch, Research Wiki, and Legacy Family Tree
Researching with Geoff - LIVE!
Using Legacy Family Tree to Support Family Groups/Associations
Navigating the new Census Tools in Legacy Family Tree
Watch Geoff Live: Cemeteries
Watch Geoff Live: Adding a Census Record
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Free Not Who He Once Was: Tips for Finding Your Name-Changing Ancestor
Tracking Your People Down: Family Reconstruction in Community Studies
Lineage and Lingerers: Why Our Ancestors Stayed Put
Successful Collateral and Cluster Searches
Abstract versus Original, Do I need both?
Focused Research VS Information Overload
Chasing Uncle William Through the Wilds of Cyberspace
Logic and deduction: Part of the Genealogical Proof Standard
Descendancy Research: Another Pathway For Doing Genealogical Research
Which Record is Correct?
Quality, Time and Completion: Developing a Research Plan (Part Two)
Clusters and Chains for Genealogical Success
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Free The Science of Family History
Letters, Ledgers, and Lodge Books: Finding Ancestors with Untapped Ethnic Resources
Dark as a Dungeon: Researching Mining Records
25 Uncommon Sources for Your Genealogy
Decoding Secret Societies: Finding Your Male Fraternal Ancestors
Decoding Secret Societies: Finding Your Female Fraternal Ancestors
The Home Archivist: Preserving Family Records Like a Pro!
Free 1,000 Webinars: History, Bloopers, Inside the Tech, and what's next
Free TRIBAL QUEST: The Latest Expedition
Working a Probate Case as a Forensic Genealogist
Introduction to Forensic Genealogy
The 15 Habits of Highly Frugal Genealogists
Remedies for Copy & Paste Genealogy
5 Steps to Becoming a Good Ancestor
Misbegotten Children: Tracing the Family Lines of the Illegitimate
Tools for Translating and Transcribing Genealogy Records
Organizing (or Reorganizing!) That Family Reunion
Plain Folk: Researching Amish and Mennonite Families
One Touch Genealogy Research: How to Handle a Record Just Once
Rescuing Orphaned Items: How to Save and Share Ebay, Etsy and Flea Market Finds
Free Reclaim The Records: Using Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogy
Free What's in a Surname: The History of Surnames and How They Help in Family History Research
Free (Spanish) Cómo explicar los grados de relación familiar
That's New to Me: Unfamiliar Websites for Your Genealogy
25 Simple Research Hacks Every Genealogist Should Know
Genealogy and the Little Ice Age
What's Been Done: Using Someone Else's Genealogy Research
The Frugal Curator
Creating a Community Indexing Project
Four-Star Genealogy on a One-Star Budget
Verifying Information You Find Online
Sharing The Joy: Projects That Will Captivate The Non-Genealogists In Your Life
Ohio and the Early Gathering of the LDS Church
Online & On Track: Railroad Records, Indexes, and Finding Aids on the Internet
Free Tribal Quest: A special project to document the family histories of tribal people
Genealogy on a Budget: Filling Out Your Family Tree Without Breaking the Bank