Tracing Ethnicity
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An Overview of Jewish Genealogy
Are you looking for connections through Jewish genealogy? Exploring a Jewish past that was lost due to intermarriage or conversion? Searching for family lost in the Holocaust? Today there are more resources than ever to attain those goals. Read More
Trace Your Native American Roots
There are a countless number of Americans curious about their unproven Native American descent. Many are daunted by the task, and don't know where to start. Here you'll learn practical tips to begin tracing your Native American heritage. Read More
The Scots-Irish in the Southern United States: An Overview
The Southern United States today is home to people of many different cultural backgrounds, so that genealogical research in the area may lead one to ancestors of various nationalities. One of the principal groups of settlers, however, was the Scots-Irish... Read More
Early African American and Anti-Slavery Newspapers: Sources for African American Genealogy Research
Genealogists are very familiar with the importance of newspapers in their search of family history. They have often been described as the "diaries" of a community, providing notices of deaths, births and marriages; murders and crime; political news, local events,... Read More
Beginning Your Scottish Clan Research: Basic Strategies and Resources
You find a box of family letters in the attic of your childhood home. Yellowed with age and brittle at the folds, the writing is clear nonetheless: your ancestor Alexander MacKay emigrated from Scotland to America. The faint skirl of... Read More
An Effective Oral History Interview with African Americans
Many genealogists are under the impression that all oral history interviews are the same. In most cases they are when you are asking questions using the five adverbs: who, what, when, how and where. But for most ethnic groups... Read More
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