July 2017

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When do you rely on an index? Illusion or Reality?

Accumulations of information eventually reach the saturation point and finding any one item becomes nearly impossible. Linear searches, befo...

By Valerie from Atlanta - SC Archive, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19443422 Microfilm is described as follows ...

This image is not us. But we are going camping. See you in a while.

Genealogists fall into distinct categories based on their technological awareness. In the general population, this phenomenon is called the ...

Genealogists who do research into legal and church documents in any time period, up to and including the present, will run into a plethora o...

The organized activity of gathering historical information dates back into antiquity. One of the early notable collections of knowledge was ...

For anyone doing in depth German research, the series of books called the "Map Guide to German Parish Registers" is a valuable ass...

One change here in Utah is that I have to get used to daylight savings time again. Arizona is one of the few places in the United States tha...