O’Sullivan. The Earliest Irish Royal Family

O’Sullivan. The Earliest Irish Royal Family: Three Selected Bloodlines

William Randolph McCreight’s extraordinary family history traces the O’Sullivan sept a full 31 generations from the author’s Carolina origins to the family’s Irish roots in 170 AD. Based on examinations of archaeological, linguistic, and DNA evidence, Mr. McCreight shows that the O’Sullivans may be the oldest documented Irish royal family on record. At their height[…]Read more

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Explains and Itemizes Ulster Church Records

Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors Explains and Itemizes Ulster Church Records

Persons looking for Scots-Irish ancestors invariably discover that Ulster church records are a crucial source of information. Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors, by William J. Roulston, is the most comprehensive source in the field. Chapter 2 provides detailed coverage of Church of Ireland, various Presbyterian, Methodist, Moravian, Quaker, Roman Catholic, and Huguenot denominations. Excerpted below are the[…]Read more

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Evidence Explained’s New Tutorial: Chapter 3: Building a Citation

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

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Connections between the U.S., Canada, and Mother County Abound in Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America Consolidated Edition

Connections between the U.S., Canada, and Mother County Abound in ‘Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America Consolidated Edition’

Between 1997 and 2024, Genealogical.com published the nine-volume series, Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, by Dr. David Dobson. We are delighted to present those books in a new, fully indexed, consolidated edition. This new edition identifies over 10,000 Scottish soldiers who served in the Americas. Dr. Dobson has attached a detailed list of Scottish regiments[…]Read more

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Locating Your Roots. Discover Your Ancestors USING LAND RECORDS

Locating Your Roots. Discover Your Ancestors USING LAND RECORDS, By Patricia Law Hatcher

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

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Having Fun with Genealogy – A Look at Genealogical Humor

Having Fun with Genealogy – A Look at Genealogical Humor | By Carolyn L. Barkley

(This article first appeared in the September 4, 2008 posting on our blog) I’m a firm believer that genealogy should be fun. If we lose sight of the enjoyment of solving puzzles and discovering new information, genealogy simply becomes work. To me having fun while researching takes many forms: talking to myself (statements like “well,[…]Read more

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