Every Christmas when people ask me for gift ideas, the first thing that pops into my head is "more time." More time to research. More time to relax. More time ... Read More

I've seen a lot of death certificates over the years, but believe it or not this was the first time I ever saw "Visitation of God" listed as the official ... Read More

John Newmark posted Can you top this? this past weekend on his Transylvania Dutch blog, challenging anyone to produce an ancestor who fathered more than 22 children. Then Chris Dunham ... Read More

Smith remains the most common surname in the United States, but Rodriguez and Garcia are close behind according to the latest data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The two ... Read More

Photo organization software programs such as Adobe Photoshop Elements, Picasa and IPhoto make it fairly easy to add image captions and descriptions - think of this as the digital equivalent ... Read More

I love digitizing my old family photos so that I can easily share them with my distant relatives. I've even made a number of photo CDs, so that everyone can ... Read More

The more I work with AncestryPress, the more I like it - and the more things I find that need to be improved (read more about my first impressions of ... Read More

It's the year 2007 and ancestors are in fashion. But guess what? They were in fashion in 1899 as well. The following article, which appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on ... Read More

Yesterday, the Guardian Digital Archive was launched in England, allowing users online access to the full text of The Guardian from 1821 to 1975 and its sister paper The Observer ... Read More