About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

Online Tennessee Civil War Database to Be Developed

Civil War buffs will have a new online tool to use thanks to a grant the Tennessee State Library and Archives has received. The $40,750 grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program will allow the state to Continue reading Online Tennessee Civil War Database to Be Developed

180,000 New Chelsea Pensioners Service Records Go Online at FindMyPast.co.uk

The following news release was received from Debra Chatfield at FindMyPast.co.uk: Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1854 now available to search online In-depth and colorful insight into the lives of ordinary ranking soldiers Records include servicemen born in the Continue reading 180,000 New Chelsea Pensioners Service Records Go Online at FindMyPast.co.uk

National Institute for Genealogical Studies Offering Intensive Short Courses

The following news release was received from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies: Toronto: July 21, 2010: Louise St. Denis, Managing Director of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, has just announced that the Institute continues to celebrate its 10th Continue reading National Institute for Genealogical Studies Offering Intensive Short Courses

Arphax Publishing Announces New Paperback Editions of its “Family Maps” and “Texas Land Survey Maps” series.

The following news release was received from my friends, Greg & Vicki Boyd, whose books I highly recommend: Norman, Oklahoma, July 19, 2010: The nation’s largest publisher of original landowner maps, Arphax Publishing Co., announces today that its two primary Continue reading Arphax Publishing Announces New Paperback Editions of its “Family Maps” and “Texas Land Survey Maps” series.

Ancestry Acquires Genline

LONDON and PROVO, Utah, Jul 15, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM 17.50, -0.56, -3.10%) today announced the closing of its acquisition of Genline.se, the leading Swedish family history Web site. Genline currently has more than 17,000 paying Continue reading Ancestry Acquires Genline