Elyse Doerflinger – author of the popular e-book Conquering The Paper Monster Once and For All - has released a video recording of the Conquering The Paper Monster Lecture. Elyse has presented this lecture at various genealogy societies and has finally recorded it for the entire world to see!

Finding our ancestors is more than a hobby to a lot of family researchers. A lot of us take it very seriously and want to trace our families as far back as we can, but at the same time as accurately as we can. Are we citing our sources for ourselves and others as we research?

New Years is just a few weeks away and I have been giving thought to things that helped me this past year in doing my research. The following are things that helped me and they might help you as well. This is my year in review on techniques I have used and benefitted from.

African Ancestry, Inc. is an African-American owned company that pioneered DNA-based ancestry tracing for people of African descent in the U.S. Through their proprietary database of over 25,000 indigenous African lineages, they have helped thousands of families discover their roots at 99%!

MyHeritage.com brings Family History to the Masses with Free Family Builder 5.0. Here is their press release!

I was waiting on my husband recently during his dental visit. Knowing he would be there a while, I grabbed some issues of Casefile Clues I had not read yet. The issue that caught my attention this morning was Volume 1, Number 26 of January 24, 2010 titled, "A few Searches on Google Books".

52 Weeks To Better Genealogy posted their Challenge #46 on Volunteering. Here is their challenge: Assess your volunteer potential.

Call for Submissions! Looking for all Bloggers to participate in this 100th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. Come join us and help meet this goal!

Clark Doan of Tennessee Genealogical Society gave a wonderful interactive lecture on Navigating Roadblocks. I want to share with you some of the things discussed that night. Each of us was given a question to answer. Below are the questions and some of the replies each group gave.

Family Chronicle, The How To Genealogy Magazine, has just introduced a special edition. It is called Tracing Your Civil War Ancestors. Check it out!