Fellowship of Rotarian Genealogists

What if your family tree could reveal a connection to someone well known? The Relative Finder tool lets you discover possible relationships to historical figures, world leaders, artists, inventors, athletes, and more using your FamilySearch Family Tree.

You might be surprised by the people who appear in your extended family story.

Discover your famous connections here: 🔗 - https://www.familysearch.org/en/connect/famous?cid=SO-00063416

Hamburg convention

Declutter day. Going through old stuff

these stickers from Hamburg RI convention Our theme was DNA
Family of Rotary.

Thanks to all who submitted surnames for our "FORG Family Tree" -- can you find yours? 🌳

From sunup to sundown, our ancestors put in the hard work that shaped the world we live in today.

What did your ancestors do to build a life for their families? Share in the comments below!

What is your favorite source?

It's Day 4 at the Minnesota State Fair! Stop by the Education Building and say hello to our volunteers and learn more about what you can do at MGS!

Here is a twist on gravestones

Recipes carved in stone It's part cookbook, part love letter to the people who left their favorite recipes behind. Readers call it "ingenious," "uplifting," and "unlike anything I've ever read."

Have you ever searched Ancestry® for an ancestor you know should be there... only to come up empty? https://youtu.be/eYzJKp-jnFI&list=UULFcvpi8XvOScBogIxmarmADw

The problem may not be your ancestor—it may be how you're searching.
In this video, I'll walk you through 10 practical search strategies I use when Ancestry isn't finding the records I know should exist. These are the same evidence-based techniques I use in my own professional genealogy research to uncover hidden records, work around indexing errors, and find ancestors who seem to have disappeared.

In this video you'll learn how to:
• Search with purpose instead of searching broadly
• Use the "less is more" approach to improve search results
• Take advantage of the Card Catalog like professional genealogists
• Search the FAN Club (Friends, Associates, and Neighbors)
• Find records despite spelling and indexing errors
• Search using only first or last names when needed
• Understand record collections before concluding a record doesn't exist
• Use AI tools to help transcribe and translate historical records
• Preserve records you find outside of Ancestry
• Master my favorite technique—the Side Panel Trick—to browse records page by page when search fails

Sometimes the fastest way to break through a brick wall is to stop relying on search and start thinking like the records were created.
If this video helps you, please subscribe for more evidence-based genealogy education to help you go further, faster, and factually with your family history research.