When researching your family history, it can be unclear to know the difference between your ancestors and forefathers. These two words are used a lot interchangeably. An ancestor is someone you...

It is not uncommon for people to assume that a son is always more valuable than a daughter in China. But yet many daughters throughout China's history have shown great courage and, in many cases,...

Genealogy is not only fascinating but also exciting. The reasons why people are interested in genealogy are as varied as the people who are fascinated by family history research. People are...

When many people start to do their family history research or genealogy, they ask themselves, is there an alternative to the Ancestry.com program? In other words, is there another genealogy program...

I was doing some genealogy research and was quite surprised to find that a great German grandfather and grandmother had eight children but their first child was born before they were married and the...

As I was looking over some of the papers from R. Stuart Hummel located at Stanford University collection, I came across a very old German Newspaper clipping. The newspaper clipping talked about a...