Ever since last week's announcement of the joint census projects between FamilySearch.org and affiliate companies such as FindMyPastcom and Ancestry.com, there has been speculation and trepidation (and even downright disgust) ... Read More

A new search engine launches every few months, and it's hard to say if Cuil, which launched yesterday to mixed reviews (see here and here), is really going to be ... Read More

How long has it been since you looked at some of your older research? Revisited your notes and files? Examined your source citations (or lack thereof?). All genealogists, even the ... Read More

Through agreements with major genealogy entities Ancestry.com, FindmyPast.com and the Origins Network, FamilySearch will greatly broaden online access to censuses for the United States, England and Wales. The agreements include ... Read More

When I visted the popular genealogy site FamilySearch.org today to do some searching in the IGI and in the Georgia Death Certificates at FamilySearch Record Search, I was greeted by ... Read More

Findmypast.com, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS), has officially launched their Parish Records Collection. In addition to the 12+ million parish records previously available on the ... Read More

Members of the subscription genealogy Web site Ancestry.com are being greeted with a brand-new homepage when they log in for the first time since the change launched last week. According ... Read More

Users of the popular genealogy software RootsMagic have been patiently waiting for version 4 to come out for quite some time now - hoping that the long delay since version ... Read More

I had high hopes of locating my husband's cousin (twice removed), Leslie Archibald Powell, in the new Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificates database at Ancestry.com and was a bit disappointed ... Read More