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Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC FamlySearch.org launched its experiment lab Full Text feature last March, and it covered deeds and some probate records. It used AI to [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC WikiTree, a free genealogy site, can be one of the best places to look to see who might have researched and documented [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC The Complete Guide to Lineage Societies: The Who, What, Where and How by Kimberly Ormsby Nagy has just been published by the [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC The Georgia Archives Archives and Genealogy Day will be from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 12. There will be two tracks. The first [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC A familys cemetery lot can be in a public or private cemetery and is usually in the name of the family member [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC The article titled Family Inheritance by Denise May Levenick in the September/October issue of Family Tree magazine (familytreemagazine.com) offers guidance when we [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC Judy G. Russell, nationally-known genealogy lecturer who is the The Legal Genealogist, will speak on Sept. 21 at a seminar sponsored by [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC FamilyTreeDNA.com has set Sept. 9 as the deadline to update any family trees you have put there. On that date, the website [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC A recent posting on Lineages.com by Diane Rogers discussed the need to practice some Reverse Genealogy. Rather than solely tracing back your [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC Articles of Enslavement is a new collection on Ancestry.com that premiered June 11. This is a great new source that provides much [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC Many times, people ask me about learning more about ancestry. I usually ask whether you mean the genealogy company, Ancestry.com, or your [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC GenWebinars has recently been created by two North Carolina-based genealogy experts, David McCorkle and Diane L. Richard. The idea arose that they [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC The Smithsonian Institutions Robert Frederick Smith Explore Your Family History Center at their National Museum of African American History and Culture is [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC Many people spend decades or a lifetime doing genealogy/family history research. If you are one of those, what are your goals for [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.For the AJC Recently I have begun to rely on Google Books in my research in order to check the vast number of publications found there. [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC The May/June issue of Family Tree Magazine (familytreemagazine.com) has an article by Sara Cochran, a professional genealogist and lecturer who blogs at [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Family Tree Magazine (familytreemagazine.com) recently published Beginners Guide to Genealogy: How to Get Started with your Family Research. This 104- page [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Many people today decide usually later in life to pick up stakes, sell their property, and move to be near their [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.- For the AJC & While most times the important genealogy records are inside the county courthouses in the South, here is a list of 10 [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.- For the AJC The FamilySearch.org full text search feature, now in its labs area and which became known to most of us only about a [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Cyndi Ingle, nationally known genealogist and creator of Cyndis List genealogy website, will be the speaker March 30 for the Georgia [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC & Elizabeth Shown Mills, the well-known, nationally recognized leading expert on documenting your sources for genealogy and history writing, has published [...]

Byline: Rosana Hughes - rosana.hughes@ajc.com For decades, Rebecca Becky Burkes family feared the worst. The Smyrna native had lost contact with many of them in the 1980s after falling deeper [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.-For the AJC Tomorrow, Feb. 12, is Georgia Day, which commemorates the founding of the colony in 1733 with the landing at Savannah of the first [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Black History Month brings a renewed focus on African American genealogy research. Here are some of the major genealogy sources to [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC GENEALOGY Filae.com, part of the My Heritage family, is said to have the largest number of online resources for French genealogy [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC The Cobb County Genealogical Society is offering its annual genealogy course for researchers. The 2024 series is titled Kick It Up [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC The five main questions to ask when evaluating a genealogical document were featured in a recent online Family Tree magazine Newsletter [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. -For the AJC GENEALOGY As the holiday season is now in full swing, when thinking of gifts for family members, perhaps sharing family stories, some [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas - Jr. For the AJC &Dec. 16 is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and it will launch the nations commemoration of the [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC &Accessing the Freedmens Bureau Records Online is the subject of the Georgia Genealogical Societys Dec. 2 meeting. The speaker is Tommy [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC This week as the nation remembers the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, those alive then will [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Joining a local, regional or national genealogical society is the topic of Stronger Together by Sunny Jane Morton in the November/December [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Lineage Society applications can be a source for your genealogy research as sometimes people have included documentation that you may have [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC IrishFest Atlanta returns for its 11th year in Roswell Nov. 3-5 partnering with the Roswell Cultural Arts Center at East Alley [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Our ancestors faced many taboos or roadblocks in their lives that are not looked at the same these days. In researching [...]

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia will hold a panel discussion from 11 a.m. to noon Sunday at The Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta. On Archives Day, panelists [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC GENEALOGY At a recent lecture, someone mentioned with the huge number of books, articles, websites, blogs, etc. out there, if one [...]

The annual Archives and Genealogy Day is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow. Laura Carter will present Beginning Basics [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Archives and Genealogy Day will be held at the Georgia Archives in Morrow on Oct. 7. It offers two tracks and [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr - For the AJC Blaine Bettinger, nationally known DNA expert, will speak on Sept. 23 to a hybrid meeting sponsored by the Georgia Genealogical Society [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. For the AJC In doing genealogy, we often come across some great-sounding names that we think are unusual enough to hopefully be a family surname, [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC For the AJC Tax records can be valuable records for genealogists, provided they have been saved and are accessible. Georgia has [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC &In gleaning things from several online newsletters, here are some things researchers should pay attention to before they start going down [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.- For the AJC After writing this column for 46 years, I am glad my readers are still interested enough to send me some of their [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas - Jr. For the AJC Ancestral Village Worksheet in the May/June issue of Family Tree magazine is a helpful guide to gather and preserve information on [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC In 2010, Preserve the 1812 Pensions Project began to digitize and make available the U.S. pensions for soldiers who served in [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr-For the AJC The Georgia Genealogi- cal Society will host its free annual genealogy seminar and picnic June 3 from 9 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. at [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Mothers Day is a good time to reflect on how are we honoring our mothers, their family names, and their places [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. - For the AJC Todays column is from Christine VanVoorhies Neal, an archaeologist, noted cemetery preservation expert and author of Grave Intentions. Families used to [...]