Podcast Podcast Episode 67: 3 Key PA Vital Records and Where to Find Them There are three vital records family historians need for each ancestor. What are they and where do you find them? Free access to public Pennsylvania birth and death certificates for PA residents PA Department of Health to order non-public vital records 9/11 hijackers used fake identification Ancestry. com and
Paid-members only vital records research book Vital Records Research: Unexpected and Unknown Parentage
Paid-members only vital records research book Vital Records Research: Local Registrations of Birth, Marriage, and Death
vital records research book Vital Records Research: Using DNA Results A process to match AncestryDNA results to research of birth, marriage, and death records in Pennsylvania.
vital records research book Vital Records Research: Getting Started in Pennsylvania Research An overview of how Pennsylvania records are organized and a suggested research approach.
Resources 40 Questions to Preserve Your Family History It’s the beginning of the holiday season and time to get together with family. Here are 40 questions you can ask parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins to collect your family history.
Resources Ditch Your Car and Rediscover How Your Ancestors Traveled Most genealogy research involves trying to find people as they moved from one place to another. Rarely are researchers lucky enough to have a family who lived on one property for several generations. Knowing how people traveled from one location to another is central to doing genealogy right.
Resources Misinformation on FindaGrave Can Ruin Your Family History Genealogy websites have been flooded with misinformation over the years. What started off as a small problem a decade ago is now a huge one. Anyone with an account can add any information they want to the profiles and family trees they create. This misinformation problem is most evident on FindaGra
Resources Three Tips for Preparing for a Cemetery Trip I love visiting the cemeteries where my ancestors are buried. If you are planning a cemetery visit over the holidays, here are my three tips to get the most out of the visit:
Resources Why You Can’t Find Your Ancestors’ Obituaries Newspaper obituaries are an essential part of all compiled family histories. Yet there are many researchers who can not find any mention of their ancestors’ deaths in newspapers. Why is that? It’s because they aren’t searching in all the available Pennsylvania newspapers.
Resources Odd Pennsylvania Events Your Ancestor Could Have Been In Many people complain their family history is boring. One way to liven it up is including the odd events that happened in the location or occupations of your ancestors. There are hundreds of tales and here are two really odd ones.
Why Sharing Family History is Important Right Now It's only when I share family history that I understand why I spend so much time doing family history.
Resources What is the Point of Collecting All This Family History Anyway? The internet is a hall of mirrors for almost any topic. In genealogy, we all experience this with family trees on the big genealogy sites. Names and dates connected together with no evidence of how that connection was made.
Resources Unveiling Pennsylvania's 19th Century Vital Record Registrations We are going back to 1800s and uncovering the vital record registrations, including birth registrations to marriage registrations to death registrations. We'll cover a history of vital record registrations, the types created, and where to find these records today.
Resources Pennsylvania's Ship Building History Most people don't think of Pennsylvania as being a center of ship building. Philadelphia and Erie were known as ship building centers of the United States. The United States Navy built vessels in both Pennsylvania cities from the country's early days.
Resources The 3 "Must Do" Archives in Pennsylvania for Family Historians October is Archives Month and to kick it off, I'm highlighting the three archives in Pennsylvania that every family historian should visit. Each one has records for genealogy research that you just won't find anywhere else.
