Family Tree Knots

Many times we get stuck finding records and documents concerning our ancestors because we get fixated on the spelling of a name. With a last...

As John Reid mentioned in his Anglo-Celtic Connections blog, t his past weekend I had the pleasure to be the host of the Research Room at ...

I came across this comment at the end of a plea for assistance in a Facebook group related to Canadian genealogy, " I have looked on A...

My motto when doing genealogy research is " Trust no one, verify everything, and even if it is written in stone it may be wrong. "...

In "When Asking for Help ... Part 1" I wrote about how not to ask for help in the many genealogy related groups on Facebook. Here ...

I'm in a number of groups on Facebook that deal with genealogy in specific areas of Canada. I joined those groups so that I might be ab...

Welcome to Family Tree Knots . This is my blog to discuss those tricky genealogy problems I’ve run into either in my own tree or while helpi...