Genealogy
Genealogy articles featured below provide an overview of genealogy and ancestry, family tree, family history, and developments in ancestral research.
- Creative Family Tree Ideas
The same old family trees are passé. This article will give you a creative take on making family trees. Have a look!
- Origin of Family Names
Origin of family names is quite a recent phenomenon. Although, there is evidence that second names were in use in most of Europe since the middle ages, the need to adopt a family name that was passed down through generations did not catch up with people till a couple of centuries back.
- First Cousin Once Removed
First cousin once removed, what does that mean? You might wonder, but rest assured that it definitely does not refer to a cousin who was once removed from your family and then accepted back again. It is a terminology used to refer to a person who is related to you in some way but not directly. And did you know, that by using a genealogy system we can make a family tree in terms of only cousins? Glance below for an insightful explanation.
- How to Trace Your Family Tree
If you are planning to trace your family tree, you can either follow a descendant chart format or an ascendant chart format. Here how to trace your family tree.
- Genealogy Data Communication
Genealogy Data Communication or GEDCOM is a specification which is used to exchange information between different genealogy software. It is a plain text file of the '.ged' format used for sharing genealogical information of individuals and meta data linking their information records.
- My Family History
This isn't a short story in the actual sense, not if you don't actually see my real family history as a short story. It is, however, a long story made short, a tale of the families that came together to make me and my wife and my daughter.
