Posts in January 17, 2026

Do you create a genealogy research bibliography for areas where you research? Or are the sources of information for a certain area all in your head? I’m guilty of this as well. I’ve researched families since the early 1980s in the county where I grew up and where most of my family had lived since the 1840s/1850s. But I’ve never even created a crude bibliography of what’s available, where it is, and how to access it. It’s all in my head–where things are at (what things are technically in the wrong office at the courthouse because of space issues), the rough years of various local records, what churches in my people’s past have records (and where they are), what towns have newspapers, and the like. It might do […]