Family-Genealogy

Use Migration Routes to Trace Genealogy Ancestry

2012-01-12T15:17:00.000-05:00

Use Migration Routes to Trace Genealogy Ancestry

Find your Genealogy Story through Research

2012-01-05T11:58:00.000-05:00

Find your Genealogy Story through Research

Is your Family Tree Fact or Fiction?

2011-10-25T12:27:00.001-04:00

As genealogists, sources are the oral and written documents that back up our family’s history. It helps to prove the facts that we have recorded in our family tree. Without valid source documentation for each fact in your file, you might as well be creating a fictitious story.

As most people begin their genealogy today, they look to see what they can find on the internet. This is a great way to get a jump start on your family history if you can find someone who has already created a family tree. You might be lucky enough to find that they have sources and documented where they found them. This will make it much easier for you to verify the facts.

When you are faced with doing genealogy research, you should keep a log of where you have researched, what you have researched, and if you found anything or not. As the sea of paper starts to build, this will help you immensely through your journey of discovering your family tree. Some things that are important for you to track are:

Where Did you find the Document?

Inevitably, you will need to get another copy of a page you are missing, or the copy you have is too hard to read, or you discovered you should have copied more pages. There is a variety of reasons that you need to write down the when, where and source information. Include everything about the repository (the place you found the document). This will make it easier to direct someone to get the document you need without having to go back. This can be very important when it is far away and you can’t just jump in your car to get what you need. Include the place it was found, when it was found, and the source information.

Write Down the Source Information

Sources are written documents or orally spoken. When you reference a source, you need to include the author and publishing information. Again, this is will be helpful to easily find the source again. Only knowing where you found the document or only knowing the source information will make it hard to get another copy. You need to know, who provided the facts (the author), what the tile of the book is, where it was published and when it was published, what pages you copied, etc. This is important in case something happens to the repository of where you found the source so you can locate it somewhere else.

Let Us Know - Your Opinion Counts

Since there are hundreds of types of sources, what do you find most challenging about recording sources? If you have an opinion about source templates as being useful or more of a challenge because they are not unified with field input let us know and we will include comments with our next posting which will include: Analyzing, Summarizing, and Extract the Facts from sources; Rating Documents; and Source Citation will be discussed in the next family history posting.

Record your Family Medical History Today

2011-09-14T15:22:00.000-04:00

People around the world are interested in creating a family tree. How many actually have tracked the health of their ancestors? Knowing what illnesses run in the family is important to know. Diseases are known to be passed down through the family tree. Have you ever wondered why a family member was singled out and diagnosed with a terrible illness and wished you knew what other ancestors had the same ailment?

Start Tracking your Family Medical History
Costly high-tech gene-screening tests are nice to have, but knowing your families medical history can be more telling about your risk of various diseases. When researchers at the Cleveland Clinic compared risks based on family history with those from personal genome screens that test for common DNA variations, the simple history flagged far more people who could benefit from stepped-up monitoring or tests for specific mutations related to breast, colon, or prostate cancer. "Most alarmingly, the genome screening missed all of the people at high risk for colon cancer," says Charis Eng,M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Clinic's Genome Medicine Institute.

Medical Problems Should be Tracked and Shared

Recording cause of death and physical attributes for your ancestors can be done with genealogy programs. GEDCOM standard events are useful for tracking your family's important facts. We encourage you to use a genealogy program to track your family's medical history, especially cancer and major illnesses. By recoding your families known health issues, you can pass along this information to future generations.

Below we have a few tips on how to record your medical history:
1. Find and record the cause of death for your ancestors from death certificates.

2. You can discover physical attributes for your ancestors from military personnel records.

3. A key to discovering your medical history is by asking your living relatives about their health and what they know about other family members.

4. Remember to record everything that you can find for your relatives, even if it is not a genetic illness.

5. Gather information from your mother's and father's side of the family, as Breast and ovarian cancers can come from either side.

If you have already created a family tree or thinking about it, leave your future generations armed with a good medical history by starting to collect your family’s medical information today.

How to Validate your Genealogy Sources

2011-08-25T09:33:00.004-04:00

Have you ever wondered how to rate a genealogy source? It can be confusing as you may not understand the intricacies of the document and what you should be looking for. Some of the details are impossible to really know especially if you were not present, such as who was the informant.

The three main parts to rating a genealogy source are reliability, quality, and information:

Reliability -

How reliable are the details in the document? This depends on who provided the information – is it someone who has firsthand knowledge because they were there when the event happened, or was it someone who has been told about the event after it happened?

Quality –

Is the document a copy of the original, or is it indexed information that has been transcribed by someone, where mistakes can happen in the “re-recording” of the data, which has only partial details of the original genealogy source.

Information –

The data that is contained in the genealogy source, is it being recorded at the time of the event, or sometime later? Most documents contain a mixture of primary and secondary information. Primary is current information, such as where do you currently live. Secondary information is, where have you lived.

A Social Security Application, has two questions, when were you born, which is a past event and where do you live now, which is a current event. However, since the application was filled out by person who has first-hand knowledge, usually it is accepted as primary data.

Typically a census is considered second hand knowledge because we don’t know who provided the facts. The 1940 census is supposed to contain who the informant was, so we will be able to upgrade the reliability to primary when a mother or father provided the data.

Be sure to search your family history and build proof for the data that you have in your family tree so you can share your information with confidence.

Requesting 20th Century Military Service Records

2011-07-15T16:03:00.001-04:00

Military files can be helpful in discovering genealogy information for your ancestors that can be added to your family tree. The majority of us have had several of our family members enlist due to drafts for WWI or WWII. Both drafts have provided invaluable data such as: where and when they were born; current residence; where they worked; their spouses and children names; physical attributes; and more.

Ancestors that served in the military have left files of genealogy related data with the branch of service that they served in. These records can be obtained by filing out the proper application with the necessary information. Most files for veterans’ of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Cost guard, Marine Corps, and Navy are available through the National Archives, with the earliest records dating from the Revolutionary War.

Some military service records have been destroyed by the 1973 fire that may hinder your genealogy research. If you can’t obtain the files you are looking for through the national archives, there are other research methods that you can use to find genealogy information about your ancestors.

What is the Purpose of Genealogy?

2011-07-05T11:03:00.001-04:00

For many hobbyists, it can tell a story about their ancestors. It is the history of where they came from and gives a sense of purpose. Learning about what they did, where they lived, what their hobbies were, defining relationships, linking family members with proof, finding and recording what their life was like by adding personal stories, photos, and finding important sources that confirms the data added to the family tree – that is genealogy! True genealogists know how to be cautious and where to look for “useful” information. Much of this data is not found on the internet today, but maybe one day it will be. Genealogy research is a process that requires many steps and is not accomplished overnight.

How do I get Started?

Start building your family tree with a program that offers genealogy features that are useful. It is a lot easier to add sources, stories, notes, and more manageable to manipulate data from a program, than it is with a paper and pencil. If you are new to genealogy, you will want to pick a program that allows you to add your own events, sources that helps confirm the data you are recording. Other features that may be of importance, is the ability to record multiple parents for children that have been adopted by a mother or father of a second marriage. Other features that might be important: ability to add various types of documents, organization of data and documents, ability to view and print reports, and file import and export may be of importance to you as well. Compare family tree builder features of several programs by clicking on this link.

How to Launch your Search

2011-05-24T09:25:00.004-04:00

You're ready to start researching your ancestors, but don't know where to start. Here are some tips from seasoned researchers:

ASK living relatives where and when they were born, their occupations and marriage dates. Then ask for the same information about deceased parents and grandparents, including where they're buried.

SEND FOR copies of birth and death certificates for your relatives; these will show names of their parents and other information.

CHECK newspaper archives for birth and death announcements.

LOOK FOR a family Bible that records births, deaths, and marriages.

CHECK OUT local cemeteries for names on tombstones.

LOOK FOR Census records online and in libraries and family history centers.

CHECK FOR data at a local historical society.

GO TO the courthouse and search for deeds, wills, court records and other data.

JOIN a local genealogy or historical society.

CHART everything you find. A timeline can prove or disprove information you've found.

FIND more helpful tips and genealogy articles.

Tracing Female Ancestors

2011-03-17T09:27:00.003-04:00

Tracing female ancestors can be a bit of a task because in most cultures when a female gets married, she takes on the male’s last name and when ever documents are found as married couples, the females given last name is usually not listed, so tracing the female to her parents can be a challenge.

Depending on when the female was living, and the availability of government records, you might find your female ancestors maiden name in birth, marriage, and death certificates, or social security applications. An obituary may link to a male sibling and list his last name. Sometimes you can find the maiden name is one of the children's middle or first names. In a census record, you may find the parents living next door.

Different ethnic groups do have different traditions and you may be able to find an early ancestor knowing this information:
• French women often used their maiden names on official records and legal documents.
• Married women from Scandinavian countries customarily kept their maiden names, but should also be looked for under their husband’s surname.
• In the American colonial period, Dutch marriage contracts allowed women to preserve their maiden names and their individual legal status. But, after 1690, the Dutch colonists began adopting the English tradition of using the husband’s surname.
• In Europe, German and Polish Catholic women’s deaths were recorded using only their maiden names, not their married names.
• Spanish surnames are often dual names taken from the paternal name combined with the maternal name. Married Hispanic women always used their maiden names on legal documents. In other records, they should be searched for under both their maiden name and their husband’s legal name. The word “de” (for “spouse of”) may precede their husband’s surname when added to their own.
• Italian women used their maiden names on legal documents and in official records.
• Jewish family names ending with -s or -es are matronymic-derived from the name of a mother or wife.
• Quaker women often used their maiden name as a middle name after marriage.
• Scottish widows went back to using their maiden names after the death of their husbands.
• In parts of Wales, up to present times, it was a custom for some women to retain their maiden names after marriage.

Our ancestors are important to most of us regardless of their gender. They all have stories to tell both as children and as adults. Good luck in finding your female ancestors.

If you have any suggestions for finding your female ancestors, feel free to share your ideas.

Boost Your Genealogy Efforts by Using New Collaborative Tools to Improve your Family Tree

2011-02-16T16:16:00.001-05:00

The genealogy market lacks tools that help genealogists build well documented family trees.
Our online family tree builder program is designed to help genealogist do just that.

PRWEB (Press Release) – February 10, 2011 – FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ - Savvy genealogists have long known the benefits of building their family tree online in a collaborative environment. A common approach is to find other genealogists who are searching the same surname in hopes of exchanging genealogical data to minimize their own research efforts. Today, ourFamily•ology unveils two new collaboration features aimed at helping subscribers build their family history.

The first new feature allows genealogists to search for a common ancestor and see basic data from anyone’s tree that has enabled this feature. Users can also contact and exchange information in hopes of sharing research.

The second feature gives the ability to share documents with other subscribers. There are only a small percentage of genealogical documents available online. Genealogists need to do field research to uncover and document their family history. ourFamily•ology now provides a tool where subscribers can share their findings such as wills, probate records, photos, birth certificates, and more.

“Sharing documents and ancestry information is important for the preservation of your family history. Our new features combined with our existing collaboration tools are helping users to build reliable trees,” said Brandy Sacco, founder and owner.“ Last year ourFamily•ology became a certified FamilySearch affiliate to give users the ability to - access, add, exchange data, and collaborate with those contributors. Another feature allows users to invite relatives to help build their family tree.

ourFamily•ology is the only family tree builder that offers a simple way to visually see your progress and provides an accurate rating guide. For the first time, genealogists can easily gain a sense of ‘the big picture’ of where they are and what they should work on next all at a single glance.

Sign up for a 100 day free trial. No credit card is necessary.

Visit OurFamily•ology at the Rootstech Conference in Utah, held at the Salt Palace Convention Center February 10-12. We can be found at booth 704.

About ourFamily•ology
OurFamily•ology is a web-based genealogy software program that is a certified FamilySearch affiliate. Our main goal is to help users have fun while they build and organize a precise family history and a reliable tree that can be shared with anyone. For more information, please visit http://www.Family-Genealogy.com
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Founder & President
ourFamily•ology, Inc.
568 Commerce St.
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
brandy.sacco@ourfamilyology.com
201.315.0228

Are you a Genealogy Technology User?

2011-01-17T15:29:00.003-05:00

Then you may benefit by attending RootsTech 2011, the first of its annual expos. Genealogy is rapidly expanding in many directions. Genealogy companies and users are gathering in Utah at the Salt Lake Palace Convention Center February 10-12th to explorer emerging technologies.

Genealogy users can receive valuable information from an event such as this. Visit the tradeshow booths to see and play with products that capture your interest. Discover new technology in action. Attend the presentations from industry experts and walk away having learned something new.

Genealogists will able to experience a vast amount of genealogy information in a convenient way with demonstrations and education.

If you are interested in starting a genealogy company, there will be many technology lectures for you to attend. One of them might spark a new idea for your endeavor.

Visit the RootsTech 2011 Conference program to see the full list of topics and sessions.

Register now at RootsTech.org

RootsTech is sponsored by Microsoft, Dell, FamilySearch, Brigham Young University, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Brightsolid, Ancestry.com, the Federation of Genealogical Societies, and the National Genealogical Society.

Discover Migration Routes across the United States to Trace your Ancestry

2010-11-14T14:43:00.001-05:00

It wasn’t so long ago when traveling across the country was done by horses, water vessels, and walking. Your ancestors who arrived from distant lands and traveled across the United States did not have it easy. Roads were rough and getting from one place to another was a bit challenging. With the conditions and means of transportation, it is a wonder how our relatives endured their trips. Getting from one place to another was hard and time consuming. The roads they traveled were not smooth and paved. Traversing up and down hills with all their belongings or what belongs they had, was challenging. Step back into time and discover some historic roads mapped out with counties of the 1750’s and 1800’s. These routes may have left genealogy clues to your ancestry. Read the rest of the article.

Search for your Civil War Ancestors

2010-10-16T14:35:00.001-04:00

The American Civil War was between the Confederate and the Union States. The Union supported the abolishment of slavery. During the presidential election of 1860 the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the existing states. Before he became the 16th president, seven states declared their succession from the Union. The administration rejected the legality of secession. On April 12, 1861 Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation. The struggle to preserve the Union and putting an end to slavery was the goals of the Civil War. The War ended in 1865 and all states remained part of the Union. Slavery was abolished with the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, declared on December 18, 1865. Read the rest of the article.

Family History Tips

2010-06-02T08:26:00.002-04:00

If you have wondered about your family history, you are not alone. As more time passes and families grow, tracing the lines of your heritage can become more and more challenging. Also, as travel has become easier and safer, families are decentralizing and spreading across the country or even around the globe, making it difficult to keep in touch. In the past, multiple generations of a family may have been born, lived, and died in the same town – even the same house – but today, that is seldom the case.

One of the best and most methodical ways to research your heritage is through the development of a family tree. Creating a family tree is a great way to learn about your family’s history and connect with the past. While there are many ways to conduct a today’s genealogists have a lot of resources at their fingertips through the Internet and the many other records available to the public. To help you find your roots, here are tips on how to research and document your family tree:

1. Get organized
The best place to begin your search for your family’s history is at home. Gather any documents, photos, or other family mementos that might help provide a foundation for your family tree. Consider creating a file or dedicating a notebook to track your progress and make notes. Keeping everything together in one place will allow you to stay more organized and more easily make sense of the document trail you will eventually accumulate. As you gather additional documents over the course of your family history search, you should evaluate your organizational system and determine if it would make sense to divide the materials you have collected into categories based on family name or type of document. You will gain the most from your research if you are able to compare documents easily and use that information to make accurate, verified additions to your family tree.

2. Start with your immediate family
After you organize any materials you already have, begin consulting with your family members. Take notes on any information you can glean from these resources. You should ask questions that include basics such as names, hometowns, family structure, and trades or occupations. You should also ask open-ended questions that help reveal stories about your family history. This can help you to not only answer questions that might come up as you are following the trail of your ancestry, but it will provide additional insight into your family’s personal story. Search for information about military involvement or how a period in history may have contributed to your family’s lifestyle or story. You might also gain interesting leads by following up on research another family member has conducted – be sure to inquire about any existing family trees. You can use information that has already been researched to help verify your own findings or guide you in your efforts.

3. Examine birth, marriage, and death certificates
There are many resources available online and in government offices that you can access during your family history search. Reviewing birth certificates and other personal documentation can help you learn about family members and where they were located during their lifetimes. The best resources are first-hand as they tend to be more reliable than databases where information was copied from original documentation. Make photocopies of the original documents whenever possible so that you can add this information to your overall file of ancestral information. If you are unable to obtain a copy of a specific certificate, carefully record all information from the original document. Accuracy is key, so be sure the information you write down is carefully and completely transcribed. This will help you avoid following up on a false lead due to incorrect details.

4. Consult military records
When building a record of your lineage through a family tree, many genealogists do not simply stop at the names of their ancestors. A large part of genealogy is learning about the lifestyle of your ancestors and what events in history were a part of their lives. In some cases, a family’s connection to a war can help reveal a great deal about the family’s past. Consulting military records is a great way to learn about how your family members were involved in important wars or military action. Not only can it provide you with insight into the political and social belief systems of your ancestors, but it can also help you create a personal tie to a historical event.

5. Visit graveyards and cemeteries
At one time, tombstones contained a wealth of information reaching far beyond a name and dates of birth and death. Sometimes older tombstones contain information about children, cause of death, and other information about the family member’s occupation or involvement in important historical events. To aid in your search for your family history, you’ll need some basic tools of the trade. Bring a digital camera or paper and chalk with which to make a rubbing of your family’s tombstones. Sometimes a rubbing will be the best way to record the information. As time passes, the wording on a tombstone can become eroded by the elements. Making a rubbing offers the best chance to read and record of the useful information on a tombstone.

6. Use an online genealogy website
Online genealogy sites can be a great way to stay organized and make sense of the information you have gathered. By proceeding with your family history search in a methodical way, you will avoid having to do double the research. You will also be able to lay out the information you have in a clear, understandable way. This will allow you to make well-documented conclusions and educated guesses about your kinship based on the information you have already gathered. Using Web-based genealogy tools, such as our web-based family tree application, can also help you verify every resource and hunch by enabling you to share your research online with family members who may live in other states or counties.

Researching your family’s history can be both fun and interesting. With a little bit of elbow grease and a lot of detective work, you can build an accurate family tree that can be added to over generations to come. And even if you have trouble with your search and seem to happen upon more “dead ends” than treasure troves when it comes to useful information, remember that any insight or perspective you gain into your family’s past is more than you knew before. Treasure the information you find and keep it alive by sharing it with future generations.

2010-05-26T09:45:00.002-04:00

For Immediate Release
19 May 2010

2010 FamilySearch Software Award Recipients Announced

SALT LAKE CITY—Recipients of the 2010 FamilySearch Software Awards were announced at the FamilySearch Developers Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 14 recipients were recognized for their outstanding and innovative work in advancing products and technologies that integrate with FamilySearch’s emerging suite of products and services.

The annual FamilySearch Software Awards has been established to encourage and recognize software development that benefits the growing demands and needs of family history consumers. “The awards formally recognize the software achievements of those developers and companies that are making important contributions to the family history and genealogy industry,” said Gordon Clarke, FamilySearch developer services product manager.

The Best New Product awards were given to applicants in different platform categories. Products with specific features deemed important to the growth of the industry received the Best New Feature award. Community Player awards recognized individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the software developer community.

The following recipients were announced and awards presented at the FamilySearch Developers Conference:

Best New Product Awards
• The MagiKey for the “Best New Windows” product
• Arcalife for the “Best New Web site”
• MobileTree for “Best New Mobile” product
• FamilyInsight for “Best New Macintosh” product

Best New Feature Awards
• OurFamilyogy for “Best Research” feature
• SharingTime for “Best Collaboration” feature
• Genetree for “Best DNA” feature
• Ancestral Hunt for the “Best Geo-Mapping” feature
• FamilyPursuit for the “Best Groups” feature
• Photoloom for the “Best Media” feature
• FamilyChArtist for the “Best Print” feature
• AppleTree for the “Best Celebrity Tree” feature

Community Player Awards
• Gaylon Finlay, Incline Software, “Bug Hunter” award
• Michael Booth and Bruce Buzbee, Roots Magic, “Trailblazer” award

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons can access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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ourFamily•ology Announces Access to FamilySearch Records

2010-05-07T10:56:00.004-04:00

Subscribers can now add sources from FamilySearch, the world’s largest repository
of genealogical resources, to their family genealogy website

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRWEB (Press Release) – April 28, 2010 – FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ - ourFamily•ology announced today its certified affiliation with FamilySearch, the world’s largest repository of genealogical resources. This affiliation will provide access to millions of genealogical records that are invaluable to genealogists as they perform their ancestry research to build their family tree.
OurFamily•ology is a web-based family genealogy software program that is now a certified FamilySearch affiliate. “This affiliation will allow subscriber’s to conveniently search, access, and add genealogical records from FamilySearch into a subscribers website through ourFamily•ology. We are excited to offer this feature to help our members build well documented family trees. We look forward to developing more features with FamilySearch,” said Brandy Sacco, Founder and President.

“Both new and experienced genealogist alike will find this website easy to use and an extremely useful tool for source research and documentation,” said Gordon Clarke, FamilySearch Developer Network Manager.

ourFamily•ology is the only family tree builder that offers a simple, visual progress and accuracy rating guide. For the first time, genealogists will easily gain a sense of ‘the big picture’ of where they are and what they should work on next within their family tree. It also includes an optionally ever-present status chart, with a color-coded reliability and progress indicator to gauge the completeness of your family tree as well as provide a clear roadmap of what you should work on next – all at a single glance.
OurFamily•ology Web-based Features Include:
· Subscription includes two websites, one for Entering information and another for visitors to view your family tree
· Build your family tree on your own or collaboratively with family members
· Invite visitors to view your family tree with required passwords
· Set which fields for living people are viewable for visitors
· Update genealogical details for the same person in multiple files with one click
· Easily attach sources, photos, notes, etc. to multiple family members
· Receive warnings and reports for probable data issues
· Track changes with transaction reports
· Options to add multiple parents; marriage and child parent relationships
· Add your own custom events and LDS Ordinances
· Track the accuracy and completion of your family tree with a unique color-coded Progress Rating Chart that is setup by the user based on what facts they want to track
· Search, access, and add genealogical records from FamilySearch

Visit ourFamilyology at the National Genealogical Family History Conference in Utah, held at the Salt Palace Convention Center April 28th – May 1st. We can be found at booth 827 in the GenTech Hall.

About FamilySearch
The Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU)—doing business as FamilySearch—is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch maintains the world's largest repository of genealogical resources; these resources may be accessed through FamilySearch.org, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries.

About ourFamily•ology
ourFamily•ology is a security conscious, Web-based provider of genealogy tools to help you build and organize a precise family history and a reliable family tree that can be shared with family and friends. For more information, please visit http://www.Family-Genealogy.com

Online Genealogy Search Tips

2010-01-28T15:48:00.000-05:00

Are you searching for a new way to find sources for your family tree? There are millions of online genealogy websites, too many to count for sure. Navigating the internet with different search terms and different browsers might help uncover the document you have been looking for. Learn how to create refined search statements and combine keywords to create effective searches. To read the full article, click here.

Trace your Ancestors through Census Records

2009-12-08T12:24:00.004-05:00

There are other countries that conducted census records prior to 1790, but the United States was the first nation to mandate a census in the Constitution. Article One, Section Two states that at least every ten years an "actual Enumeration" needs to be taken of the population. Now the single most sought after document by genealogists, the census has provided valuable information about ancestors to help countless researchers complete their family genealogy.

To read the full article, which includes a table for what state census records are available and other reference tools, Click here.

ourFamily•ology Web-Based Genealogy Software Program Launches Website, Offers Free Trial

2009-11-03T09:14:00.000-05:00