
For the rest of this week, you can search subscription site Ancestry.com’s military records collection for free in honor of Veterans Day. ...

Many of you are honoring the veterans in your family by researching their service with Ancestry.com’s free-through-Friday military records access and in other resources. ...

The redesigned January 2010 Family Tree Magazine—our 10th anniversary issue—is going to subscribers this week! This is the issue featuring a reader’s family photo on the cover. We’l...

Our friends at our local Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County let it slip today that they’re digitizing their local Sanborn maps and putting them online. They’ve already got two volumes scanned. Wondering what Sanborn maps are? Th...

Every genealogist has a brick wall ancestor, it seems--so just about everyone can use the advice in our next webinar, titled (predictably) Brick...

Here's what's in this week's roundup: Databases recently updated or added in FamilySearch’s free Record Search pilot include the Indiana marriage index, Netherlands parish registers (images only so far), 1920 US Census index, Brazil Catholic church records (images only so far), and Italy m...

Family Tree Magazine What's on your genealogical plate this weekend?

We don’t mean to rush you into the winter holidays—it was just Halloween—but if you’re thinking of giving family history-related gifts this year, now’s the time to start. Many s...

British subscription and pay-per-view site FamilyRelatives is adding a million new military records spanning from 1808 to World War 1. They include: The Peninsular Medal Roll (1808-1814), naming some who fought in the Peninsular Wars against Napoleon from 1808 to 1813...

Got your eye on a few how-to genealogy books, CDs, digital downloads or other helps in ShopFamilyTree.com? Now you can keep track of those wanted items—and, if you choose, communicate your hankering to those whose gift lists you’re on—by creating a wish list. Here’s how:1. Go to ...

First it was the Library of Michigan. Now the State Library of Massachusetts is reporting on its blog that the Massachusetts governor’s office announced during an Oct. 29 press conference that the governor is considering closing the State Library of Massachusetts to cut expenses. ...

We’re still taking entries for our November 2009 All in the Family challenge, but only for another week. If we publish your entry in Family Tree Magazine, you’ll win our Organize Your Genealogy Life! CD. Here’s how to enter: 1. T...

I’ve heard the tip that writing your genealogy research into a narrative forces you to organize your information and for theories about what your ancestors did. I’ve even suggested this tip to people—but I never took my own advice. Unti...












