Research Aids


The following articles are from the Ancestry Daily News and is (c) MyFamily.Com. It is re-published here with the permission of the author-Michael John Neill. Information about the Ancestry Daily News is available at Ancestry



These articles are here to assist you with your research and will hopefully answer any questions you may have about the differences in documents and information that you find in your particular research.

  • The Census Taker Cometh

  • From A Distance

  • Is Your Brick Wall in Your Head?

  • Avoiding Assumptions

  • Organize the Inconclusive with Discrepancy Charts

  • How Do I Know I Have the Right Family?

  • "The Check's in the Mail . . . and Other Home Sources"

  • Clipping Clues

  • Locating Evaporating Relatives

  • Why?

  • Where Did They Get That?

  • The Name Game

  • Be Prepared

  • Orphaned Papers

  • Knock, Knock! Where's Enoch?

  • Spilling Your Guts

  • Crossing the State Line

  • Organizing Data

  • Interviewing Grandma

  • Where O Where Can the Obituary Be?

  • Turn the Page

  • Analyzing Before Life and After Death Experiences?

  • Poorhouse to the Rescue

  • Ready to Go?

  • Three Questions

  • Sally/Sarah, What's the Difference?

  • Making Copies

  • Have You Ever?

  • Get Some Culture!

  • Clarifying Clara: Analysis of A Death Certificate

  • A Rose By Any Other Name

  • Rural Roots

  • When There is No Probate

  • In Their Own Hand

  • Undocumented Chaos

  • Genealogical Misconceptions

  • Mugging My Relatives

  • Going…Going…Gone! Sale Bill Genealogy

  • Case Study: Killing the Hogs and Threatening the Neighbors - Court Records Solve a Kentucky Problem

  • Their Parents Died Young, Now What?

  • Where Did the Farm Go?

  • Milling Around for Leads

  • I Want it All!
    This is a MUST read for anyone requesting information from others!

  • Speaking at the Family Reunion

  • Have You . . . ? I Wonder

  • Cleaning Mother's House

  • He is On the 1914 Manifest!

  • They Have to be Related--They have the Same Last Name!

  • The Importance of Location for Vital Records

  • Are You Checking Manuscript Collections?



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