Avoid These Common Beginner Genealogy Mistakes
As a beginner genealogist you are excited to get started on your family tree. But there are some common mistakes that you need to avoid in order to successfully build your family tree. Don't let the idea that you are descended from famous people obsess you. Although...
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What’s the Ancestry of George W. Bush?
The family Name of Bush is in the Enchanted Family Database, in time we will see if they link up because it is always fun to find the Famous people in your Family Tree. Originating in Columbus, Ohio, the Bush family has developed into one of the most accomplished...
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Once you have developed a small family tree
Once you have developed a small family tree with ancestors going back for several generations, it is time to take another look at the details you have unearthed so far. There are many clues, many interpretations, many guides to your learning about your family by...
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As you build your family tree, you will soon
As you build your family tree, you will soon become proficient in finding birth, marriage, and death details of your ancestors. But to enrich your family tree, you will need to go past this basic information. Here are some ideas on digging deeper, and finding those...
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Are you searching for ancestors and feeling stuck
Are you searching for ancestors and feeling stuck? Are you sure your ancestors are lost in space? Perhaps you cannot find their siblings or children anywhere? These are common problems to everyone building a family tree. Here is one simple tip to help you discover...
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How to Search the Social Security Death Index…
The Social Security Death Index, commonly referred to as the SSDI, is a database containing the names and dates of birth and death for over 77 million Americans. This massive database is a wonderful resource for genealogists, and is available in many online locations...
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Looking for Someone From Your Past?
Are you looking for someone? A former classmate? Old friend? Military buddy? Birth parent? Lost relative? If so, then you're not alone. Thousands of people head online every day in search of details on missing people. And more and more of these people are finding...
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Types of Marriage Records for Family History
Records of Intentions to Marry Marriage Banns — Banns, sometimes spelled bans, were public notice of an intended marriage between two specified persons on a particular date. Banns began as a church custom, later proscribed by English common law, that required the...
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Genealogy Research in the USA
If your ancestors have been living in the USA for several generations, they will have provided many different sources or documents about them, over their lifetimes. Whether they lived in a big city or a farm by a very small village, there are a variety of records that...
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Follow Your Indirect Ancestors
As a beginner in genealogy building your family tree, you are likely very excited as you find yet another ancestor of yours. Once you find that first greatgreatgrandfather and his family, you probably did one of those little happy jigs at success! It is so satisfying...
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Tips for Taking Great Cemetery Pictures
Pictures are a wonderful way to document , from scenic views of the cemetery, to inscriptions of individual tombstones. It isn't always as easy as it seems, however, to achieve sharp, clear photographs of stones that may be centuries old. That old stone may be easy...
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Staveness Family
So why the Staveness Family you ask, well this was not built for Lady Kathleen, but in fact Lady Kathleen's children, Rebecca and Jon. This is their fathers line. Thanks to their Great Uncle Henry, this line goes back a ways and includes a lot of pictures that came...
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Uncover the Meaning of Your French Surname
Coming from the medieval French word 'surnom' translating as "above-or-over name," surnames or descriptive names trace their use in France back to 11th century, when it first became necessary to add a second name to distinguish between individuals with the same given...
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Proof
Building your family tree is like building a house, brick by brick. The bricks are your ancestors, their names, life events and details. But the mortar that holds the bricks together is absolutely essential, if that house is going to stand up. What is the 'mortar' in...
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New Researcher – Veatch Veach Branch
I would like to welcome Tracy Anderson and her daughter Shannon as researchers within the Enchanted Family Genealogy Website. Tracy has added to the Veatch Veach Veitch Branch which links to England, Scottland and European Nobility. The Veitch (Veatch) family ties...
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How Am I Related? Cousin Relationships Explained
If someone walked up to you and said "Hi, I'm your third cousin, once removed," would you know what they meant? Most of us don't think about our relationships in such exact terms ("cousin" seems good enough), so many of us aren't very familiar with what these words...
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Learn How to Trace Your Family History
It can be very interesting to trace your family history. But, be forewarned, that it can take a lot of time and effort on your part to track everyone down. Records haven't always been well maintained, names change, etc. Probably the best place to start at is by...
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How to Get Safely Remove Photos from Old…
Many of us are in possession of one or more magnetic photo albums. These albums, which first achieved popularity in the 1960s and 70s, were made from a thick paper stock coated with glue strips and included a thick Mylar plastic covering for each page. Conservators...
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Compton Family
Welcome this is the section I will be posting about the Compton Family Genealogy. This family so far goes back to Williamus Compton. And my Grandmother's maiden name was Compton. This family also at one point ties into the Royalty of England. There is many book...
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The Beginning of Your Genealogy Family Tree
If you are planning to start to build your family tree for your family, you are likely very excited at the possibilities about finding details of your long-last uncle, or the side of the family you know very little about, or how those 2nd cousins are related to you....
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