It's hard to imagine, but hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people die each year whose identities are known (they aren't a Jane or John Doe), but for whom no family member ... Read More

Last week, genealogist Dick Eastman got tired of all the complaints about "the high cost of genealogy services" and wrote a knee-jerk reaction article "I Have a Complaint Concerning Many ... Read More

I spent some time indexing a set of about 160 names from the Philadelphia Marriage Index (1885-1916) yesterday through the all-volunteer FamilySearch Indexing project. This wasn't my first foray into ... Read More

To celebrate Memorial Day and honor all who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, Ancestry.com is offering free public access to its U.S. Military Collection from May 20 through ... Read More

I've always been a huge fan of the Family History Library Catalog online at FamilySearch.org - a finding aid to over 2 million rolls of microfilm and hundreds of thousands ... Read More

The popular UK family history site Findmypast.com unveiled its brand new version of the 1901 census today with a retranscribed index to offer "more accurate transcriptions" than other sites ... Read More

The 1860 U.S. Census made an appearance at historical records subscription site Footnote.com this past week. Some researchers might wonder why ... the 1860 census is already available from numerous ... Read More

Several new groups of genealogy records have made their debut on FamilySearch Labs this past week, including Civil War Pension Index Cards, Philadelphia Death Records (1803-1915) with digitized images, and ... Read More

The archives at the International Tracing Service formally opened to the public on April 30 and genealogists are already beginning to take note. An organized group of 42 genealogists from ... Read More

A neat article by travel writer Jan Burak Schwert appeared in the Seattle Times earlier this week recounting her husband's unusual meeting with his third cousin Franz - a man ... Read More

A recent letter issued by the Vatican Congregation for Clergy directs Roman Catholic dioceses worldwide to keep The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from "microfilming and digitizing information" ... Read More

Genealogist Claire Bettag recently learned that the LSU library has a digital microfilm reader that offers remote access over the Internet and graciously shared her discovery on the Association of ... Read More