(or over MyHeritage or over FindMyPast or over [insert other paid site here])
TL;DR: FamilySearch is free and accessible to everyone.
FamilySearch is a “one global family tree” site (like WikiTree) while Ancestry is an personal family tree site.… Read more “Why you should prefer FamilySearch over Ancestry for records”
A last name at birth (or LNAB) is the surname given to a child when they’re born and the culture you’re born into usually determines the name. In the US, England, and many places formerly colonized by England, your LNAB is usually your father’s surname even if your parents were not married at the time of your birth.… Read more “How to find or confirm a last name at birth”
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My paternal 2nd-great-grandfather Henry Logan (1837 – ~1920) was born into slavery in Mississippi. Two out of four of the US Census records I’ve found for him say that his parents were born in South Carolina (the 1870 Census doesn’t have columns for the birthplaces of parents unless they were born outside the US and the 1900 Census says they’re from Mississippi).… Read more “The search for Henry Logan’s family”
Before I became interested in genealogy my cousin told me that she’d researched our family. She said she’d discovered the plantation where some of our ancestors had been enslaved. My maternal grandmother’s birth surname was Strozier and that is not a common name in the US.… Read more “The Enslaved of Reuben Strozier of Meriwether County, Georgia”
