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Land ownership maps are a great genealogy resource to identify land your ancestor owned. They can be used to find other records and understand your ancestors’ lives.

Historical maps are crucial to genealogy research! Learn how to find free online historical maps to use in your genealogy research.

Volume One of Genealogy; Jan-June 1912

There are thousands of sites that are helpful for researching your ancestors from the Netherlands. This list contains my 10 favorites. I have limited this list to websites that would be useful for people who don't speak Dutch, which means they are either available in English or self-explanatory.

My great grandparents purchased their homestead via the Homestead Act of 1862. My family and I were curious, so we did some research.

of the California Trail near Gravelly Ford from the south fork of the Humboldt River in Nevada.

Posts about mason-Dixon written by S.K. Nicholls

One of hundreds of thousands of free digital items from The New York Public Library.

The internet age has made a wealth of information available to anyone with a working connection, and being able to move backward in time through detailed...

Coal Mining in Iowa

"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven." Araminta "Minty" Ross, who was later known as Harriet Tubman, was born to slave parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross in Maryland, in the early 1820s. Neither the exact year nor place of her birth was recorded. The year 1822 is based on a midwife payment and...