town of origin

A piece of advice from the collective wisdom of genealogy: Go back and search again. The larger databases like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch are continually adding new material to their sites, so if you don't go back and search them from time to time, you could miss out on a big find. Case in point. I…

At a recent meeting of the Lake County (IL) Genealogical Society we heard Teresa Steinkamp McMillin talk about finding your ancestor's town of origin. She called this "the holy grail of genealogical research," because once you find that, you can research your family in their homeland, across the ocean.But how to find the town of…