Just this week, I made two great connections online. The first was especially serendipitous, as it relates to my father-in-law, Robert Powell, who passed away earlier this month. Exactly two...
A new site operated by MissingLink Software Corporation of Ontario, Canada, is billing iself as "a free online genealogy magazine containing genealogy news, articles and links." Miles Whittingham, President of...
Prompted by economic conditions, Wolly Genes is breaking from the traditional cruise ship format for its annual conference, and hosting instead a land-based conference in the economical Shenandoah Valley of...
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists (CSG) announced today that the first phase of bringing the CSG's flagship genealogical journal, The Connecticut Nutmegger,...
Whether it's looking at old pictures, listening to stories of elderly relatives, or the fact that someone got you a genealogy software program for Christmas, the holidays are a popular...
36 million people living in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man were recorded in the census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April 1911. Today,...
Unfortunately, even in the friendly field of family history the old adage "Buyer Beware" must hold true, and the occasional genealogy scam trips up even seasoned genealogists. The best defense...
In 2008 I organized some of my genealogy files, continued to scan some of my old family photos and slides, took a few online genealogy classes, attended a genealogy conference,...
When I was first starting my research I had plenty of help -- much of it from strangers. People I had met only through email took cemetery photos, did quick...
