Knowing which way you should look and where you should go can be daunting if you're looking to do your genealogy research and find your ancestors. One of the resources that we like is FamilySearch....

Johann Gottlieb Hummel, my great great grandfather, was born in 1829 in Erdmannhausen, Ludwigsburg, German. In the 1850s, he migrated from Erdmannhausen in Germany to The United States; he arrived...

When people look at archaeology and genealogy, they can be a bit confused as to if they are precisely the same thing or something completely different. Some critical differences exist between...

If you are studying the Old Testament, the very first book is Genesis. We often skip over Genesis, but it is an essential book of the Old Testament. Genesis remains an essential book in the Old...

If you’re looking for a birth record, it will depend upon whether or not the individual you’re looking for is now deceased or still living if you can find the record. Not all birth records are...

Today we take it for granted that everyone has a last name or a surname. But this was not always the case in many countries and cultures. Last names or surnames were added to a person's first...