Bound photo books are a nice way to display a series of photos. These make great gifts and wonderful keepsakes that can be kept on a bookshelf or displayed on a coffee table.

Design and caption the glossy pages and cover of your own book filled with photographs from your vacation, family reunion, or baby's first year. Create a family yearbook and make it a family tradition to create a new one every year. What an amazing historical record! Can you imagine your grandchildren thumbing through volumes of family history to see their parents when they were kids?

Surname variations and changes are the bane of a family history researcher's existence. Have you ever searched unsuccessfully for an ancestor on a family history site?

This article covers the following categories with respect to searching electronically for an ancestor, along with examples:

1. Surname changes due to variations in spelling
2. Marriages and Remarriages can result in unofficial surname changes for children
3. Female Surnames Change due to Marriage
4. Surname Variations in situations of Illegitimacy, Marriage, and Remarriage

The problem with genealogy is that everyone makes mistakes! If you find out someone else has uploaded your family tree online it is easy to get excited. Ask yourself this though! Are you willing to trust someone else's research? Everyone makes mistakes and interprets genealogical information differently. A large number of online family histories have been uploaded by genealogists with no or very little experience and thus can contain a high number of fundamental errors. This article looks at some of the ways to verify online family trees.