For the first time ever, over one million Holocaust-related records - including millions of names and 26,000 photos from the National Archives - are available online. Footnote.com, in conjunction with...
Most of us involved in researching our family tree have interviewed at least a relative or two. Asked questions about their parents, grandparents, school life and wedding day. Learned some...
The holidays will be here before you know it and, if you're like me, you're already trying to figure out what to give the family members on your gift list....
Almot 200,000 Scottish burial records, dating from the 1800s, are now available online through a partnership between Angus Council and Deceased Online. The burial records of all lairs in over...
The announcement from the Free Library of Philadelphia that they will be closing all libraries October 2, 2009 unless PA legislators can come to an agreement on the budget was a bit of a...
Many of the names that people think "sound" Jewish are, in fact, simple German, Russian or Polish surnames. The point? You generally can't identify Jewish ancestry by a surname alone....
For more than two years, FamilySearch has been indexing and digitizing genealogy records from all over the world (with the help of hundreds of thousands of volunteers) and putting them...
