Tools

Tools used to assist research

Lancaster Deed Book Index

Lancaster Deed Book Index

I’ve written about how much I love deeds—and the great information you can find in them—and I’ve written about how great it is to find the Lancaster County Deed books viewable online. One thing that’s not so great is not having a deed index online, too. I’m working on changing that! I’ve been going through [...]

Genealogical Map of the Pennsylvania Counties

Pennsylvania Genealogical County Map

If you do genealogy, then you’ve got to love maps. Maps can help get you oriented, organized and straightened out when the research—and all the little bits of data you’ve collected—gets confusing.  Say you find records under the same name, but in different townships. A map can help you to decide whether the records are [...]

Tracking record availability by year and age

Census Checklist

If you’re a fan of Ancestry.com on FaceBook, you may have seen the postings about creating a census checklist to track your ancestors through the census records. Since people have been sharing theirs, I thought I’d share, too. I don’t know if you’ve found this to be true in your family (bet you have!), but [...]