Over 24 million American young men, born between about 1872 and 1900, registered for the draft throughout 1917 and 1918. These WWI draft registration cards reveal interesting details about these ... Read More

The popular Web site FreeOnAncestry.com is no more - reportedly shut down at the request of The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com. The issue appears to be the domain ... Read More

The Department of Veterans' Affairs has agreed to add the Wiccan pentacle to the list of approved religious symbols that it will engrave on veterans' headstones. This followed Friday's settlement ... Read More

GenealogyBank.com has posted the complete "List of Passengers who arrived in the U.S. from 1st October 1819 to 30th September 1820" free and online at www.genealogybank.com. It is an exact ... Read More

April 17, 1907 was a landmark day in American immigration, marking the busiest day at Ellis Island, where over 11,747 individuals were processed by immigration officials through the famed receiving ... Read More

April 16 is Yom Hashoah, otherwise known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Take time out today to remember and learn about the horrors of the Holocaust. Holocaust Genealogy - Databases, registries, ... Read More

It's been 95 years since the majestic steamliner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank between the icy waters of the North Atlantic in the wee hours of April 15, ... Read More

As "a gift to the nation," the National Archives of Australia has put its World War I service records online. This includes more than 376,000 records - 12.3 million pages ... Read More

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the process of digitizing the bulk of their records as part of a project dubbed ScanStone. This will eventually make ... Read More

Last week's post about the article about DNA stalking in The New York Times has prompted some interesting debate over the lengths people can/do/should go to to trace their family ... Read More

Each year, the Chinese set aside one special day dedicated to the commemoration of their deceased ancestors. Known as the Qingming festival, or "tomb sweeping day," this neat (no pun ... Read More

Another decade of passenger lists from ships leaving the UK between 1910 and 1919 is available for online research at AncestorsOnBoard.com. This brings the total number of passenger lists to ... Read More

More than 4 million names of individuals who crossed the U.S. - Canadian border between 1895 and 1956 are now available for searching at Ancestry.ca. The Canadian Border Crossings Collection ... Read More

On April 1, free access to Ancestry.com's databases was severly curtailed at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and over 2,000 satellite Family History Centers after the Church ... Read More

I'm a fan of DNA testing for ancestry, but this was a new one on me. An article by Amy Harmon in today's New York Times describes genealogists and adoptees ... Read More

Roots Television is expanding, with new channels and the ability to upload your own videos. The rapidly growing service offers 20 channels of shows for genealogy enthusiasts - all available ... Read More

Mike Gould on the Bristol & Somerset genealogy list at RootsWeb posted a funny April Fools "gotcha" with just enough plausibility to reel in many a hopeful genealogist. "Viewers of the ... Read More