Genealogy & Family History Meta Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for expert genealogists and people interested in genealogy or family history. It only takes a minute to sign up.

Sign up to join this community
Anybody can ask a question
Anybody can answer
The best answers are voted up and rise to the top

Top Questions

4 votes
1 answer
82 views

DNA and incest possibilities

2 votes
1 answer
42 views

no tag "cyrillic"?

4 votes
1 answer
22 views

Encouraging new questioners to include relevant information in questions?

4 votes
2 answers
80 views

Proposed Help Center wording for 'lookup requests'

5 votes
0 answers
29 views

Interested in the future of "Help" for this site?

2 votes
0 answers
10 views

2022: a year in moderation

8 votes
2 answers
60 views

Genealogy & Family History SE is turning 10!

2 votes
1 answer
77 views

On- and off-topic questions: Asking specifically for free resources

2 votes
1 answer
13 views

Use of the ship tag

2 votes
1 answer
11 views

improving our answers to palaeography questions

3 votes
2 answers
149 views

When should moderators use their supervote?

5 votes
4 answers
154 views

Lowering the threshold of votes to close/re-open questions?

4 votes
0 answers
10 views

2021: a year in moderation

3 votes
4 answers
51 views

Should we be encouraging/condoning/allowing questions about software piracy?

7 votes
1 answer
148 views

Genealogy & Family History is graduating!

2 votes
3 answers
91 views

Is [onomastics] tag needed?

1 vote
1 answer
31 views

Contacting people who answered questions on Main site

5 votes
2 answers
69 views

Contacting previously unknown cousin privately after discovery through G&FH SE?

1 vote
1 answer
36 views

Unpinning accepted answer from top of list of answers on G&FH SE

3 votes
3 answers
65 views

Should we add the History of Genealogy to our 'on-topic' subjects?

2 votes
3 answers
87 views

DNA Surprise Questions

1 vote
2 answers
55 views

Should we have a tag for questions regarding research ethics?

3 votes
4 answers
158 views

Ads for G&FH on other SE sites

3 votes
2 answers
114 views

Dealing with broad questions that ask for "any information about <person/family/etc>"?

2 votes
2 answers
45 views

Reviewing our Custom Close Reasons

7 votes
2 answers
282 views

Why is this site so different from discussion forums? (a guide for new users)

4 votes
0 answers
22 views

2020: a year in moderation

0 votes
2 answers
48 views

Why is this Q&A site still tagged Beta?

6 votes
1 answer
59 views

What are the rules about loading images as part of queries?

3 votes
3 answers
67 views

Should We Include Documentation-type Questions?

3 votes
3 answers
57 views

Why are there often no upvotes?

0 votes
1 answer
42 views

Is it good practice or acceptable that moderators delete comments without notice?

1 vote
1 answer
39 views

Is [land] tag named well enough?

3 votes
1 answer
39 views

Making questions more accessible?

3 votes
4 answers
150 views

Asking for genealogy software recommendations?

6 votes
2 answers
84 views

Improving FreeBMD results

1 vote
1 answer
51 views

Is [complex-families] tag needed?

4 votes
3 answers
91 views

Are questions being closed too quickly?

7 votes
0 answers
42 views

2019: a year in moderation

6 votes
0 answers
45 views

Announcing our newest(?) moderator

9 votes
5 answers
149 views

How to handle "look up" requests?

2 votes
3 answers
44 views

Should we close questions with no overt "G&FH content"?

1 vote
1 answer
36 views

May I ask about name identificaton here?

5 votes
1 answer
47 views

Would a meta-question about citation expectations be useful here?

4 votes
2 answers
102 views

Does our privacy policy (clearly) forbid naming living people?

1 vote
1 answer
24 views

Closing older questions as duplicates of newer ones?

4 votes
2 answers
40 views

What do we want to do with the tag "online"? Should we get rid of it?

5 votes
1 answer
97 views

Missed it by that much(


Looking for more? Browse the complete list of questions, or popular tags. Help us answer unanswered questions.