How to get past the indexed record
By Robin Foster If you use online databases to research at FamilySearch.org or Ancestry.com you may have come across indexed records. ...
Recently Discovered Grave Reveals Another Minister Buried at Fairview
By Robin Foster As 2014 winds down, the efforts to restore Fairview Cemetery in Greenwood, South Carolina and identify those whose graves...
Family history: As easy as reading the newspaper
By Robin Foster The Index-Journal (Greenwood, South Carolina) · Mon, Mar 29, 1982 · Page 6 , Downloaded on Dec 2, 2014,...
Remembering Military Veterans in Fairview Cemetery
We should never get too busy or too distracted to remember those who have done so much for us. Thank you to all those who serve. In...
What is a Brick Wall?
By Jan Edwards Definition of a brick wall: If you hit a brick wall or come up against a brick wall, you are unable to or make progress...
Why Start Over?
By Jan Edwards When most of us began doing family history times were way different. We did not have access to online anything. Online...
I Love a True Story, Real Photos, and Trees with Sources
By Jan Edwards I love a story that is true, a photo if it’s really them and a tree that has sources and great documentation. I’m going to...
Genealogy Resources That May Tell Your Ancestor's Birth
By, Robin Foster Civil registrations for births is only one way you may discover the date or place of birth of your ancestor. You will...
What Can the Living Tell you?
By Jan Edwards When I first began Family History it was in March of 1994. For many when they say they have been doing family history for...
As the Story Goes, Nobody Knows!
By Jan Edwards Many times as a researcher and someone that helps others we hear a very common phrase, “well the story goes”, “I was told...
