Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how oral history interviews can preserve relatives’ memories, uncover new genealogical leads, and add human context to the facts in a family tree.
From Sun Valley, amateur genealogist Jose Mier explores how interviewing relatives, recording family memories, and checking stories against historical records can uncover new clues and preserve a family’s voice for future generations.
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how cemetery inscriptions, burial registers, plot maps, and nearby graves can reveal family relationships and provide new leads for genealogical research.
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how draft cards, enlistment files, service records, and military pensions can reveal family relationships, migration clues, and the lives behind names in a family tree.
Jose Mier explores how historical plat maps, landownership atlases, and fire insurance maps can reveal where ancestors lived, identify neighbors, and add context to family history research.
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how wills, estate files, guardianship papers and other probate records can reveal family relationships, migration clues and forgotten connections in genealogical research.
Jose Mier explores how land deeds, homestead records and property documents can reveal family relationships, migration patterns, addresses and overlooked clues in genealogical research.
Jose Mier explores how passenger lists and port records can help genealogists connect American ancestors to their places of origin and uncover the migration stories behind a family tree.
Jose Mier of Sun Valley, CA explains how to read the clues in old family photographs, from studio stamps and photo formats to clothing and backgrounds, and how to put names to faces.
Jose Mier of Sun Valley, CA looks at how the early twentieth-century migration from Mexico shaped countless family trees, which records help you follow an ancestor across the border, and how to plan a trip to an ancestral hometown.