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Heraldry, Clans, Coats of Arms and More!
Heraldry, "the practice of devising, blazoning, and granting armorial insignia and of tracing and recording genealogies"[1], is an exciting practice. Many people who have an ancestral heritage aligned to a clan community may be aware of their clan's crest or coat of...
How to use the FamilySearch Catalog for Online Research
A necessary tool for all genealogists, the FamilySearch Catalog describes over two million microfilm records and hundreds of thousands of books and maps. While it only contains descriptions of the records rather than the actual ones, it still proves to be an important...
Beginning Your Genealogy Research: Learn Through Examples
One of the best ways to learn genealogy research (second to practicing yourself) is through the accuracies, errors, and methods of other genealogists. Examples of genealogical research can be as simple as the finding and analysis of a certain record, to the research...
Beginning Your Genealogy Research: The Research Plan
So, you’ve successfully completed the first step in beginning your genealogy research and conducted an interview with one of your relatives, but how do you use the information you’ve gathered from the interview to begin your research? This next step is where...
Beginning your Genealogy Research: The Interview
This blog post describes the first step in uncovering your family history which often begins with a simple, yet meaningful interview. The process of this type of communication will open the door to the world of genealogy and reveal just how beautiful and unique your...
A Beginner’s Guide to Researching Scotland Census Records
Genealogy research using census records has long been one of the most valuable types of research in genealogy, but only if you know how to use them. Every family historian, from seasoned professionals to genealogy rookies, learns the importance of adding census...
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Image 1: Images. Photograph. Pulteney Bridge. 17 November 2019. Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. Phyllis Zumwalt, photographer. Private collection. For more information: https://bath.co.uk/attractions/pulteney-bridge.