By Nancy Battick Friends are important to all of us.

By Nancy Battick Immigration is a hot-button issue, one where people hold strong opinions one way or the other.

By Nancy Battick Will you be traveling for genealogical research or tourism this year? Genealogists often want to visit their ancestral homelands or long to visit libraries or archives.

By Nancy Battick Once the excitement of the holidays has passed, it’s easy to slip into the winter doldrums.

By Nancy Battick When genealogists discover they can’t proceed further in their research into a family or individual, they call it hitting a brick wall.

By Nancy Battick My husband of 49 years recently died.

By Nancy Battick In my last column I wrote about the challenges involved in researching the early censuses.

By Nancy Battick One of the frustrating things involving the early U.

By Nancy Battick Did you have an ancestor who worked in transportation? Here in New England, many of us had ancestors who were involved with the sea or rivers.

By Nancy Battick If you’re searching in a foreign-language newspaper or other documents and don’t know the language, then you have a couple of choices.

By Nancy Battick A reader recently asked for advice on locating records from England.

By Nancy Battick The New England Historic Genealogical Society recently announced a new database available to their subscribers, Offshore Whaling Crew Lists, 1799-1927.

By Nancy Battick In 1976 Alex Haley’s “Roots,” already a national bestselling book, became a miniseries.

By Nancy Battick On July 4, 2026, the U.