It is the time of year when families travel to be together, share meals and sit around swapping stories about childhood, relatives who’ve passed away and what...
Read moreFamilySearch, Generations Network announce agreement
FamilySearch and The Generations Network Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com, have announced an agreement that provides free access to Ancestry.com for patrons of...
Read moreLiving In The Past: History Center Lets The Genealogy Out Of The Bottle
Sandra Haxton has gone back with the Sparkman family to Ireland in the late 1600s.Judy Kelley has tracked the Holbrooks into the mid- to late 16th century. As...
Read moreWatson’s DNA reveals some African ancestry
News that geneticist James Watson inherited 16 percent of his DNA from an African ancestor may provide the Nobel Prize winner with a new perspective on his ancestry...
Read moreHolding on to history may cost county dearly
DURHAM – Durham County’s history is falling apart, and it will cost taxpayers nearly a million bucks to put it all back together.That’s the cost of...
Read moreWhere Did I Come From? TribalPages Genealogy Maps Have the Answer
Tampa, FL (PRWEB) November 27, 2007 — TribalPages.com, home to over 175,000 family tree websites, today announced the Beta release of their new Genealogy Maps...
Read moreCanadians have no idea where they came from, survey says
A quarter of Canadians do not know their grandmother’s maiden name. According to a survey of over 1,000 people across the country, almost 40 per cent of...
Read moremyfamily.com 2.0 Beta Adds Online Family Trees from Ancestry.com
BELLEVUE, Wa., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ — myfamily.com, the leading private social networking service for families, today announced the launch of its Family Trees...
Read moreSorenson Genomics to Bring the First-Ever Retail DNA Test to Market
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sorenson Genomics, a leading global provider of DNA-related testing services, announced today that the Identigene DNA...
Read moreHolidays are great for probing the past; here’s how to start
Between bites of turkey and pie today, enjoy an enriching dish of family history. Thanksgiving is an ideal time to mine your family’s lore and ask some...
Read moreFinding ancestor wills is a historical treasure
Though not all of our property-owning forbears left a will, many of them did. For the genealogist, finding an ancestor’s last instructions recorded for posterity is...
Read moreHelp needed to preserve Latin American genealogy records
My abuelita, Guadalupe, used to like telling all of us grandkids while she made us stand in line at the stove to receive a hot-off-the-griddle corn tortilla, that she...
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