Reviewers have praised Elizabeth Shown Mills’s fourth edition of Evidence Explained for its new chapter: “Building a Citation.” Step by step, this tutorial explains the building blocks of a citation and how to layer those blocks to handle today’s complicated online sources. Mills’s tutorial concludes with fourteen universal templates that can be used to cite[…]Read more
Any researcher who works with he records of turn-of-the-18th-century New York should be delighted to learn about the following new research aid: New York in 1698: A Comprehensive List of Residents, Based on Census, Tax, and Other Lists, by Kory L. Meyerink. Genealogist Meyerink spent over two decades piecing together a comprehensive census of the[…]Read more
Land records–grants, deeds, mortgages, surveys, and more–are among the most valuable resources for genealogists to prove relationships and to point to new relationships. Why? One of the strongest motivators for American immigration was land, and one of the strongest motivators for migration within America was land. Because of this, land records are the most common[…]Read more
The latest issue of the Tennessee Genealogical Society’s Ansearchin’ News features two more reviews of the new edition of Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Here are the highlights: In the first review, archivist and genealogist Melissa Barker writes, “Mills has done an excellent job in this fourth edition.[…]Read more
Since her retirement, trauma surgeon Dr. Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD, AG, has embraced genealogy and lineage societies as her “second career”. She joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1980, and is today a member of 80 lineage organizations. She has served as an officer in several of them including in the role as[…]Read more
In previous issues of “Genealogy Pointers,” we have pointed out various features of Roberta Estes’ new book, The Complete Guide to Family TreeDNA. We will continue to do so in the weeks and months to come. The book is currently available in e-Pub format and a black and white print edition. Based on popular demand,[…]Read more
The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA: Y-DNA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA, by Roberta Estes, is now available in print and eBook editions. To say that this new book covers its topic from A to Z would be an understatement. Even the helpful glossary of terms at the back of the book runs to seven pages. To[…]Read more
Before the Internet was generally in use, people seeking their family trees sooner or later went to an archives in search of information. We spoke with relatives to elicit stories and details about the family. Some hung around cemeteries or called in at the local Registry of Deeds or the Probate Court. Pastors and parish[…]Read more
Claire Bradley is a Dublin-based genetic genealogist, who specializes in Irish ancestry. Ms. Bradley has been blogging for twelve years. On June 24, 2024, Claire posted the following review of Roberta Estes’ new book, The Complete Guide to Family TreeDNA: Y-DNA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA. “The Complete Guide to Family Tree DNA The moment I[…]Read more
Historians and genealogists have mostly overlooked the role of women in the American Revolution, even though women’s roles in working their farms, raising their children, and generally supporting the morale of the Patriot side were of great importance. The suffering of the men at Valley Forge, on the British prison ships, and during long marches[…]Read more
Several weeks ago, we published the e-Book version of Roberta Estes’ new work, The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA: Y-DNA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA. (If you missed the announcement, you will find a summary of this important new title below). Today we are happy to report that the print version of Roberta’s book is now available[…]Read more
The following review appears in the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists journal, MASSOG, Volume 48 (2023-2024), No. 2 The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Second Edition in Three Volumes, by Gary Boyd Roberts (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022. cxciii + 1,725 pp. Index. Softcover $190.00). Order[…]Read more
