Go back to school with American Ancestors! School records offer family historians insight into an ancestor's daily life, help fill in a timeline, and can be a useful tool in cluster research. This presentation will discuss how to find yearbooks, registers, teacher lists, and other school records—in manuscript, published, and digitized format—from elementary school through college.

By the end of the War of 1812, nearly 35,000 American Regulars and 458,000 militia had served on land and sea. In this webinar, we will discuss the key records and resources to learn more about your veteran ancestor. We will review compiled service and pension records, muster rolls, correspondence from officers, town histories, and a new database from AmericanAncestors.org.

Cemetery records can offer important clues to understanding the lives of those who came before us. Learn how headstones, family plots, and burial documents can shed new light on your ancestor’s life.

Delve into the world of family history research in New Hampshire through live demonstration. In this lecture, we will discuss essential state-specific resources and records for the granite state.

The military records at the National Archives detail service given between 1775 and 1916. We will discuss how to locate, access, and utilize compiled service records, pension applications, and other resources that detail your veteran ancestor’s service. We will also discuss briefly more recent records available through the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis (WWI–present). 

Scots have been migrating to and settling in America and Canada for centuries. Today, there are an estimated 25 million Americans of Scottish descent. Tracing your Scottish heritage is rewarding, but not without its challenges. Join our genealogist to learn the first steps in tracing your Scottish roots.

While we might wish all our ancestors’ records were typed in a standard format and perfectly legible, that simply isn’t the case. Many of the records family historians turn to are handwritten and may be faded, use archaic terminology, unfamiliar abbreviations, or are just plain illegible. This lecture will provide practical strategies for approaching handwritten documents, understanding and deciphering hard-to-read handwriting from different time periods, so that you can make the most of these important resources in your family history research.