A multimillion-dollar industry has been built around fancy books to hold your family history in. Multiple websites let you upload your photos and publish them in leatherbound, goldleafed albums, creating something that looks like it came off a coffee table at Barnes & Noble. This books aren’t cheap- but I want to say they’re worth it.

In 1633, the vicinity that is now identified as Connecticut began to be settled by English Puritans migrating from their original community in Massachusetts. Organizing quickly, the state wrote its earliest constitution in 1639. This constitution was the earliest constitution to be based on democratic ideology, earning the state the moniker The [...]

How do you find vital records for your ancestors? Access to vital records in the US depends on which state their in. There are different rules for every state, and each state started keeping these records at different times. In other words, you are looking at relearning the process with every new state you go into.

Family history research involves lots of records- birth records, marriage records, adoption records, immigration records, and death records. If you’re new to genealogy and looking for records on your ancestors’ deaths, you may not know that there are a few different types of death records. Here is a quick primer on the four most common types