Crossroads Historical Research

After a very prolonged absence, we're happy to be back with a complete website redesign and new services. Enjoy!

Genealogy | Crossroads Historical Research Crossroads Historical Research is a Denver-based genealogical research and consultation business specializing in American records and the Family Heritage Video Project.

Ever wanted to know a little bit more about why census records are so important to family history research? Then enjoy this brand-new video on that very topic!

Your Family 101: Census Records | Crossroads Historical Research If my super-long blog post on census records was too much for you, here's a bite-sized video version!

Thanks for your patience since I last posted. Here's the second part of our two-parter on research plans!

Your Family 101: Research Plans, part 2 | Crossroads Historical Research Since learning a new skill is always easiest when a concrete example is provided, here's an example from my own family: how would I go about figuring out when m...

This week's video is based on genetic genealogist Diahan Southard's "Box of Records" analogy to help explain how you share DNA with your genetic relatives.

Your Family 101: Understanding Shared DNA DNA tests are everywhere these days. While interesting and fun, it isn't always completely clear what they're really showing us. How can these tests predict ...

Our second episode is up. Find out why city directories are surprisingly informative!

Your Family 101: City Directories In today's video, we take a look at an underappreciated record set: city directories. They may look boring, but these workhorse records of the genealogical w...

While I created this new group under my personal and not professional account, I wanted to let anyone know who sees this page that I'll be running a Denver-area Meetup group to help people with their genealogy. If you're in the area and interested, please join up and come to our first meeting on 2nd September (details in the link).

Hope to see you there!

Denver Genealogy Meetup (Denver, CO) Do you want to start researching your family's history, but have no idea how to get started? Are you already working on your family tree, but could use some help and motivation? Or are you completely