Family Genealogy Resources

8 Tips to Help Find Your Family Tree: Unsure where to start? National Geographic has eight ideas to get started with genealogy.
Interview Questions for Conducting Oral Histories with Family Members: Living family members are treasure troves of family history. It’s important to record their stories. UCLA assembled an organized list of questions to help.
Four Tried and True Systems for Organizing Genealogy Research: Staying organized while doing family history research is key to successfully completing the project. These systems will help all family historians keep their information organized and easy to access.
Genealogy for Beginners: Genealogy requires good research and organizational skills. However, anyone who is interested can learn how to start tracing their family history.
How I Traced My Ancestory Back Into the Stone Age: Genealogy is a lot of work, but with the resources available through the internet and advances like DNA testing, it’s possible to understand the historical scope of a family.
Immigrant Name Changes: Sometimes officials changed the names of immigrants without their consent. Sometimes, though, immigrants changed their names for a variety of reasons. Here, researchers can read letters written by immigrants telling the story of how their name was changed.
Simple Tips for Reading Old Handwriting: Handwriting on primary sources sometimes looks undecipherable at first glance. However, anyone can learn some easy ways to decipher the handwriting on old forms and logs.
Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was): The New York Public Library insists that immigrants’ names were not changed at the rate most people believe happened.