There are hundreds, if not thousands, of court cases and accusations of witchcraft across colonial America, yet the most famous series of prosecutions from this period are the Salem witch trials between 1692 and 1693. In that short period, more than two hundred were accused, thirty found guilty, and 20 executed. In this online lecture, we will discuss how to verify your lineage from someone accused of witchcraft in Salem during the Hysteria. We will point you to key records, resources, and references for proving your line of descent.

Cemetery transcriptions are a valuable resource for all family historians, especially when you’re unable to visit a cemetery or when the stones have worn away and are no longer legible. In this presentation, we will discuss the importance of cemetery transcripts and point you toward online and published collections at AmericanAncestors.org, the Digital Library and Archives at AmericanAncestors.org, FamilySearch.org, local historical societies, and more.

Go back to school with American Ancestors! School records offer family historians insight into an ancestor's daily life, help fill in a timeline, and can be a useful tool in cluster research. This presentation will discuss how to find yearbooks, registers, teacher lists, and other school records—in manuscript, published, and digitized format—from elementary school through college.

By the end of the War of 1812, nearly 35,000 American Regulars and 458,000 militia had served on land and sea. In this webinar, we will discuss the key records and resources to learn more about your veteran ancestor. We will review compiled service and pension records, muster rolls, correspondence from officers, town histories, and a new database from AmericanAncestors.org.

Cemetery records can offer important clues to understanding the lives of those who came before us. Learn how headstones, family plots, and burial documents can shed new light on your ancestor’s life.

Delve into the world of family history research in New Hampshire through live demonstration. In this lecture, we will discuss essential state-specific resources and records for the granite state.

The military records at the National Archives detail service given between 1775 and 1916. We will discuss how to locate, access, and utilize compiled service records, pension applications, and other resources that detail your veteran ancestor’s service. We will also discuss briefly more recent records available through the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis (WWI–present).