Category Archives: Advice & How-To

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

Okay, genealogy friends, I need some advice on how best to cite a digital image of a newspaper article obtained through a library-access-only database, such as ProQuest or NewsBank.  By this, I mean you either have to go to the library and use their computers (or network) to access the information, or if available, you can do it from home with your library card.  I also mean that these are databases that are not available to the general public in other ways (in other words, I cannot purchase a subscription […]

Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see a “new” option (well, new to “new search”) available on my Categories search results page.  In the upper-right corner of the results section, there are now two links that you can toggle between to sort your results. Name – Arranges the results in alphabetical order based on the collection title (really helpful when you are working with census records and want to go year by year).  Results Count – Orders them by the collections with the most hits down to the least amount […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

How appropriate—it’s been four years to the day that I last wrote about any progress on the case of my second great-grandfather, Emil Müller.  Sadly, it’s taken about that long to make much progress, but I have made some major breakthroughs that I thought I’d share. Last March, Archives.com released a collection of Evangelical Lutheran Church of America records.  To say I was ecstatic would be an understatement, as I knew I wanted to get my hands on those records, knowing the Müller family attended a church in Chicago that […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

This post is long overdue since I discovered this trick about six months ago.  But, I’m writing it now due in part to Michael John Neill’s recent blog post Churches That Do Not Exist; They Can’t Spell Lutheran; and Why Search Terms Occasionally Are Part of the Citation. Back in March 2013, Archives.com released digitized collections for Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Birth, Baptism and Confirmation Records, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Death and Burial Records, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Marriage Records.  Knowing that my Müller family in […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.