By : Melanie Walters Using family tree charts is the easiest way to trace your family lineage. There are many types and styles of these, but they all have one thing in common: they are blank. In other words, it’s up to you to do the research and fill in the blank spaces. In the [...]
By : Melanie Walters When building family tree charts, obituaries along with birth, marriage and death certificates yield some of the richest information. However, unlike publicly available documents stored in government digitized archives, obituaries can be much harder to find, even online. They are well worth the effort it takes to find them, though. Sources [...]
By : Melanie Walters If you have ever thought about tracing your family history, then a great place to start is with free family tree charts. There are many of them available for download online. While they are just blank family tree templates, they give you a great starting point because they allow you to [...]
By : Melanie Walters We see timelines everywhere. Stock market analysts use them to track the changes in stock values, for instance. Historians use them to give a graphical illustration of historical events. Similarly, genealogists use them to trace a family history. The biggest difference between genealogical timelines and family tree templates is that the [...]