What's the difference between genealogy and family history?

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If you follow the news, you heard or read recently about the family relationships of our major candidates for the presidency of the United States.

Most genealogy columns are about research, but genealogy is most valuable when genealogists go beyond the traditional family trees and family group sheets and write a family history.

Most genealogy columns are about research, but genealogy is most valuable when genealogists go beyond the traditional family trees and family group sheets and write a family history.

Most genealogy columns are about research, but genealogy is most valuable when genealogists go beyond the traditional family trees and family group sheets and write a family history.

Most genealogy columns are about research, but genealogy is most valuable when genealogists go beyond the traditional family trees and family group sheets and write a family history.

Most genealogy columns are about research, but genealogy is most valuable when genealogists go beyond the traditional family trees and family group sheets and write a family history.

Most genealogy columns are about research, but genealogy is most valuable when genealogists go beyond the traditional family trees and family group sheets and write a family history.

Most genealogy columns are about research, but genealogy is most valuable when genealogists go beyond the traditional family trees and family group sheets and write a family history.

The Internet is providing genealogists with such a veritable avalanche of new digital databases it's literally impossible to keep up.

As wonderful a resource as the Internet is, genealogists can't get very far without interviewing people.