Here are some ideas for quick and easy Mother's Day projects you can

Check out Ancestry's CD-Rom: New York Births & Baptisms: Southeast

Women are too often overlooked in local histories and biographies

A reader investigates the neighbors of her ancestors in the census

Photograph of Oscar and Anne Martha (Svendsen) Setter and family.

Photograph of Oscar and Anne Martha (Svendsen) Setter and family.

Contributed by Alma Davis, Green Valley, Arizona I am so proud of

A summer photograph of the Pickering and Westall families of Lawrence

Those hard-to-find maiden names are often the biggest mysteries we

This week's photo corner features two pictures of the Smart sisters

One of the more challenging aspects of family history is keeping

Juliana gives a list of possible questions to ask family members

Those hard-to-find maiden names are often the biggest mysteries we

Work backward and use a carding system to identify ancestors with

Print out this questionnaire and pass them out to family members at

One of the more challenging aspects of family history is keeping

A number of readers have written to ask me about timelines and how

Those hard-to-find maiden names are often the biggest mysteries we

Family historians respond to spring in their own way--by flocking to

Work backward and use a carding system to identify ancestors with