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FPRC just brought in a new stock of Elizabeth Shown Mills Second Edition Revised Quicksheet titled Citing Ancestry Databases & Images – Evidence Style. This new guide will be of help for all of us who use Ancestry on a Continue reading NEW – Quicksheet: Citing Ancestry Databases & Images – Evidence Style – by Elizabeth Shown Mills
Tracing your Leitrim Ancestors was written in 2018, and Family Roots Publishing has finally gotten them imported from Dublin and made them easily available to American genealogists. To celebrate having stocked new Irish titles, FRPC is offering 15% off (the Continue reading NEW – Tracing your Leitrim Ancestors; by Tom Coughlan – 15% off Through Sept. 23, 2019
A lot has happened at MyHeritage DNA since I last posted about their DNA services. I’m afraid that all of my personal health issues – caused by an accident a year ago – have kept me from blogging some of Continue reading MyHeritage Expands Their DNA Services to Health
A new NBC and Ancestry sponsored Saturday morning program entitled A New Leaf seems to turn a corner for network programming of genealogy. Most genealogy-related TV programs have been celebrity oriented. A New Leaf promises to be about “normal” people Continue reading “A New Leaf,” Hosted by Daisy Fuentes, Beginning Oct. 5 on NBC
The following was received from the Texas State Genealogical Society: Join us Friday, October 11 – Sunday, October 13, 2019, at the Omni Houston Hotel Westside in Houston, Texas for a fabulouse genealogy get-away weekend at our upcoming Family History Conference! This jam-packed event Continue reading Texas State Genealogical Society 2019 Conference Early Bird Registration Extended
It’s the 18th anniversary of 9/11. And I will say once again that “we will never forget.” Eighteen years ago this morning, Patty and I were awakened while sleeping in a Union Gap, Washington hotel room by our friend, Janet Continue reading We Will Never Forget
As you can see by the title, this post has nothing to do with genealogy. That is, unless you stretch the idea of genealogy-related blogs to anything “history” oriented. Hmmm. That makes sense, so I guess I won’t apologize for Continue reading Country Music – Produced by Ken Burns – Premieres Next Sunday Night – Sept. 15, 2019
Thanks to Daniel Horowitz for the announcement of the posting of The Missing Piece. Read on… The Missing Piece, the MyHeritage original documentary that had its world premiere this past weekend at MyHeritage LIVE in Amsterdam, is now publicly available Continue reading The Missing Piece – a MyHeritage Original Documentary
The following was received from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY, UT — FamilySearch added new, free, historical records this week from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Germany, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain and the United States. Search these new records and images Continue reading New & Updated Databases Posted at FamilySearch the Week of 9 September 2019
Fully understanding how to get the most out of today’s genealogy websites can be a challenge. MyHeritage has taken on the issue and has developed what they call MyHeritage Education. This will be of help to all of the MyHeritage Continue reading NEW – MyHeritage Education
Tracing your Tipperary Ancestors was written in 2018, but Family Roots Publishing has finally gotten them imported from Dublin and made them easily available to American genealogists. To celebrate having stocked new Irish titles, FRPC is offering 15% off (the Continue reading NEW – Tracing your Tipperary Ancestors, by Noreen Higgins-McHugh – 15% off through Sept 23, 2019
My friend, Regina Negrycz, has just completed a new Ancestral Guide. This one is entitled a Evaluating Online City Directory Databases. This handy Ancestral Guide details the various online web-based City Directory Databases that are available to genealogists. As all Continue reading NEW – Evaluating Online City Directory Databases – by Regina Regrycz
We are just hours away from an exciting weekend in Amsterdam, and MyHeritage has announced that they will live stream the genealogy and DNA lecture tracks online throughout the conference! So… Get a lot of coffee and enjoy! Click on Continue reading MyHeritage Live From Amsterdam – Available FREE live streaming – Starts at Midnight PDT Tonight (Friday, Sept 6)
Family Roots Publishing now has the first two of a number of Ohio-related volumes of German Immigrants in American Church Records available for purchase at the FRPC website. Following are the details on Volume 27, which covers Toledo, Ohio. A Continue reading German Immigrants in American Church Records Vol. 27 – Toledo, Ohio – Now Available.
Note – this is an edited update from a post originally posted on August 22. As you may or may not have noted, I haven’t done a lot of communication for nearly a year. It’s been about that long that Continue reading Personal Update from Leland