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The Huguenot presence in colonial America was significant, though often overlooked. Beginning in the late seventeenth century, waves of French Protestants settled in the New

Huguenot research requires a mix of published works, archival sources, and society records. Fortunately, many resources exist that bring together dispersed records. The Huguenot Society

You can’t replace what you can’t name. Start by mapping the expected records for your time and place—then locate duplicates, summaries, and echoes stored elsewhere.

Researching Huguenot ancestors requires strategies that account for both the destruction of records in France and the dispersal of communities across many countries. Genealogists must

Genealogy doesn’t have to be an expensive hobby. While there are many excellent paid sites out there, some of the very best resources for discovering

Courthouse records may be gone, but genealogists still have a wealth of alternative sources to draw upon. Church and cemetery recordsChurches often kept registers of

By the early 1700s, Quaker communities in New England had matured. Persecution waned, and the Society of Friends organized its meetings more systematically. The core