Genealogy

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...

The same old family trees are passé. This article will give you a creative take on making family them. Have a look!

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...

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 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...

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...