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The following excerpt is from a fascinating article posted at parentabout.com: The breakdown is 13% of Scottish people, 10% of Irish people. 6% of English people have red hair. Now genetic researchers want to know why so many in Birtain Continue reading Why Do So Many Brits Have Red Hair? The Answer May Be Cloudy Weather. Maybe…
While we know a lot about the Nazi concentration camps, it’s not so with the Soviet Gulag labor camps, such as Pechora, Kolyma, Norilsk or Yermakovo. We’re now about to be able to experience much more about them. The following Continue reading Online Gulag Museum to Launch in the Spring
This teaser is from an article posted at the LiveScience website in 2009 that I just happened to run across. It’s interesting. A stone block from Mexico thousands of years old apparently inscribed with a previously unknown writing may be Continue reading Oldest Text in the World?
The following teaser is from the a posting December 7, 2015 at the foxnews.com website. A lead and wood artifact discovered in a roughly 6,000-year-old grave in a desert cave is the oldest evidence of smelted lead on record in Continue reading Ancient Lead Wand Found in Israel’s Northern Negav Desert
A Family Roots Publishing Co. book store is set up in the Heritage room on the lobby floor of the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel, next to the Family History Library. Hundreds of popular genealogy-related books, software programs, CD-ROMs, and laminate Continue reading 30% Off All Books at the FRPC Bookstore in the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel This Week Only
The following excerpt is from a December 4, 2015 article posted at UVAToday. While University of Virginia students are reviving the yearbook tradition on Grounds, the old copies of Corks & Curls will also be gaining a new life in Continue reading University of Virginia Yearbooks & Photographs to Be Posted Online
Today – Sunday, December 5, 2015, is the start of the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour. The first one was in 1985, making this the 30th Anniversary. Although quite a number of the attendees at the tour are already in-house Continue reading The 30th Anniversary Salt Lake Christmas Tour Begins
The following is from FamilySearch: Nearly half a million more free records were added to the Billion Graves Index this week. Russia Tatarstan Church Books 1721-1939 , Minnesota Duluth and Wisconsin Superior Crew Lists 1922-1958, Poland Evangelical Church Books 1700-2005, Continue reading New FamilySearch Database Collections Update as of November 17, 2015
The following teaser is from the Library and Archives Canada Blog: November 4, 2015 – Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Naturalization Records, 1915-1951. The nominal index has Continue reading Canadian Naturalization Records, 1915-1951 Database Gets a 2015 Update
The following teaser is from a very interesting article, written by Carrie Kirby and posted in the November 11, 2015 online edition of the Christian Science Monitor. Check it out! Thinking about Shakespeare’s seemingly odd bequests made me realize that Continue reading What Wills Can Tell You About Folk’s Stuff
If you want to get your family history done, just become a front-runner for the Presidential nomination. Okay – that may not be easy to do, and it’s simpler to do it yourself. DailyMail.com (who hasn’t been supportive of Carson) Continue reading Dr. Ben Carson’s Ancestry Reveal’s an Even More Interesting Backstory Than Carson Seems to Know
The following teaser is from the November 12, 2015 edition of DailyMail: New DNA tests comparing the exhumed bones of Russia’s tragic last tsar to known royal bloodstains have proved beyond doubt that the final Romanov emperor’s remains are genuine, Continue reading DNA Confirms That Bones Discovered in a Russian Mine Are Those of Tsar Nicholas II & His Wife
The following is from Library and Archives Canada website: During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Canada actively recruited three classes of immigrants: farmers, agricultural workers and domestic servants, including porters. The demand for urban and rural household help could Continue reading Immigrants to Canada, Porters and Domestics, 1899-1949
The following is from FamilySearch: Ecuador Catholic Church Records 1565-2011, United Kingdom World War I Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Records 1917- 1920, Spain Province of Barcelona Municipal Records 1387-1986, Italy Forlì-Cesena Forlì Civil Registration (State Archive) 1800-1815 1866-1930, and Philippines Continue reading New FamilySearch Database Collections Update for November 9, 2015
The following is from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY (November 11, 2015) — As the nation pauses this Veteran’s Day to remember those who have fought in our country’s name, FamilySearch marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by helping Continue reading FamilySearch Honors the Fallen