Billions of new newspaper index records (over 19.1 billion, to be exact) have been added to Ancestry.com. The roll-out was completed this week, for collection called the “U.S. Newspapers.com™ Stories…
FREE RESOURCE to download: Complete set of Cropped “Wolfinger” Philadelphia Directory Listings – Individually cropped for each year (1860-1922) of all available published City Directories for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Why use…
I’m not lucky enough to be among the people whose family’s Civil War records were digitized by the National Archives. So I decided to order Civil War records from the…
RootsTech registration for the 2024 conference is now open! RootsTech is the largest genealogy event in the world, sponsored and hosted by FamilySearch. Last year’s RootsTech was the first year…
Following damning reports of embarrassing mistakes and mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery – from major burial mistakes and substandard grave digging to errors with marking graves – a scandal that…
The loss of the 1890 United States Federal Census is a major blow to genealogical study of the late 19th Century. While the Veterans Schedules, and a few fragments exist,…
Did you ever consider being buried with your ancestors, who are buried in a family plot that hasn’t been touched in decades? You might be able to be buried with…
A curated collection of shortcuts to 30 Irish-specific genealogy seminar videos from RootsTech by FamilySearch, from their 2019-2023 conferences.
RootsTech, the FamilySearch-sponsored virtual and in-person conference on family history and technology, and the world’s largest such event, takes place from March 2 to 4, 2023. Even if you can’t…
Many people use city directories to track the year-to-year movements of their families and changing jobs over time, in addition to allowing us to find people living at the same…
James Colgan