Ancestry.com is a wonderful tool to be used by researchers. Here are a few features I have come to use and depend on when doing my genealogical research.

Ancestry Magazine is published bimonthly by Ancestry.com since 1982. You can subscribe to this informative magazine whether you subscribe to the online Ancestry.com or not. I have been a subscriber to Ancestry Magazine and love reading their educational articles.

I would like to share two experiences where the spirit of those ancestors I was researching has influenced me.

After a successful beta period, Afriquest (www.afriquest.com), the free online database for records of African and African American genealogy and history, will officially launch on Saturday, February 28. It is FREE!

Records of African and African American genealogy and history will soon have a free home on the Internet. The AfriQuest database (www.afriquest.com), which will premier in January of 2008, will make it easy for anyone to search for, and share, documents and photos.

WeRelate, USF Africana Heritage Project and Ideas4 to Build Free, Central Online Database for African American Genealogy to be called Afriquest.

A researcher had gotten her African American ancestors to the 1870 census, and like a lot of you, hit a brick wall. It was not beginning classes she needed, but a few suggestions where to look next and a whole lot of luck. Here are some sugestions that might help.

African American Research Tips - Black History Month is a great time to start your family research!

Getting started in your African American Research.

Here are some African American research sources that I think will be helpful in your research of your military ancestors. African Americans participated in every war that the United States engaged in.