Category Archives: The Genealogy Insider

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word ancestry means “line of descent.” While the word genealogy means “the study of a line of descent.” In […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: Have you started a family tree online? I became an avid genealogist back in 2008. On searching the web, I came across Ancestry.com. I […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: I have been building my Wakenight family tree on Ancestry.com, for years now. It is my father’s side of the family, and I have […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: Most family tree websites use the terms “husband” and “wife” when entering information. In the past, society viewed the family unit as two married […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: I went on Wikipedia.com to look up the word “genealogy” and found an interesting statement: “Genealogy received a boost in the late 1970s with […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: Most countries observe Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May. It is a day to celebrate mothers and motherhood. Called Mother’s Day in […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: I have been building my family tree on Ancestry.com for many years now. Part of this process involves researching your surname, or last name. […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: With the advent of the internet, creating a family tree has become one of the most popular pastimes in recent years. If you are […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: The other day, I was on Facebook.com chatting with my cousin about our family tree. We were discussing a distant relative whom we hadn’t […]

Guest Posting from The Genealogy Insider: One day, as I was on my computer, my mother asked me to look up a friend that she had known in school. She […]