Genealogy gets messy quickly. This site is about learning to research carefully, organize what you find, preserve the stories, and be honest about what the evidence does—and does not—prove.
Read the Articles Companion Worksheets
A step-by-step workbook to capture, research, organize, write, and preserve your family's story.
Interview relatives, collect photographs and documents, and record family stories before details disappear.
Turn stories into research questions, compare records, track sources, and separate evidence from assumption.
Organize your research and turn names, dates, records, photographs, and memories into a history other people can understand.
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I first became interested in genealogy while trying to create a family history as a gift. I jumped in fast, made nearly every beginner mistake possible, and eventually realized that family history deserved a more careful approach. Years later, I came back to it with a different goal: learn the process, document the lessons, and build something worth passing on.
Start with the mistakes I made →