Are you wondering if your family record has already been extracted and available somewhere on the internet?  It just might be!  FamilySearch has announced that they have added 119 Million NEW FREE RECORDS!  Comprising over 64 million names, the foreign countries include China, Czech Republic, Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, etc.  There are many U.S. state [...]

If you had a birth record for a child that gives the date and place of birth and his parents’ names, would that be enough?  Would you stop there or would you look for other records?  I hope you said you’d look for other records and sources. If you had a birth record AND a [...]

Census records show Joseph Mullin and his wife, Mary Ann, five children born between 1866 and 1881. Margaret A. Mullin (1871 age 4 and 1881 age 14) Jesse Mullin (1871 age 2 and 1881 age 12) William Mullin (1871 age 2/12 born Feb., and 1881 age 10) Ida Mullin (1881 age 4) Archie Mullin (1881 [...]

Sometimes in our genealogy searching we just stumble on something we weren’t even looking for.  That happened to me one night as I surfed the internet searching for a way to access the records of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Livesey St., Manchester, England. My ancestor, Thomas Francis Farrell, had married Winifred Moran there on 28 [...]