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09/02/2024

We love stories about how learning about our ancestors helps us find strength in who we are:

Learning about ancestry can boost mental health and act as a powerful tool in helping heal generational trauma.

03/08/2024

Have Irish ancestry? Give this new collection a look:

Records from Ireland’s famed Guinness brewery, newly digitized and available on Ancestry.com, could be the key to unlocking many family history puzzles.

08/02/2023

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f7sx0n/the-22nd-century-people-living-among-us

Our family ties, according to Richard Fisher, extend far further across time than we realize. This is a fun video that talks about our ancestors and descendants and how far their lives reach into and outwards from our own.

Right now, there are millions of people from the next century, walking among us – but they're not time travellers. In the third of three films about 'deep time', journalist and author Richard Fisher reflects on the 22nd Century citizen in his own family: his daughter. She, along with many other ch...

03/01/2023

Join RootsTech 2023 online for free! Starts March 2.

A family history conference. An on-demand learning library. A way to grow closer to the people, places, and stories that matter most. RootsTech is all that and so much more. Join us as we celebrate the joy of connection together.

01/22/2023

Stories are where family history lives. Check out this new platform called STORIED, a service or WORLD ARCHIVES.

Who are we, really? Storied CEO Kendall Hulet says there's a critical missing element when it comes to answering the

11/17/2022

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/12/world/holocaust-survivor-baby-intl/index.html

When Alice Grusová was a baby, her parents left her on a train station bench, with no idea of what would become of her.

04/29/2022

SEARCH THE 1950 US CENSUS FOR FREE! Volunteers are busy ensuring that information indexed by computers is complete and accurate for the newly released 1950 census. You can also participate and help people to discover details about their family that have been hidden for 72 years.

Find your ancestors and build your family tree

04/22/2022

Candice Buchanan will present “Local History & Genealogy Research at the Library of Congress” at the next meeting of the Solano County Genealogical Society.

The virtual presentation begins at 11 a.m. May 7. Find out more and how you an view at https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/learn-to-navigate-library-of-congress-for-family-history-information/

02/28/2022

Join RootsTech online for free this year.

https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/next/registration/

04/11/2021

RootsPoint honors Prince Philip and his ancestry. This article tells how although his ancestry could be traced back to Queen Victoria, Prince Philip’s family was in fact spread out over all of Europe and was testimony of widespread intermarriages between royal families in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Though his ancestry could be traced back to Queen Victoria, Prince Philip’s family was in fact spread out over all of Europe and was testimony of widespread intermarriages between royal families in the 18th and 19th centuries.

01/06/2021

https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/02/myheritage-adds-huge-collection-of-historical-u-s-city-directories/

AN ALTERNATIVE TO FILL IN THE GAPS BETWEEN CENSUS YEARS: About a year ago, MyHeritage released a large data set of the US city directories, comprising 545 million aggregated records consolidated from 1.3 billion records. Thanks to their level of detail, city directories can provide a viable alternative to U.S. census records during non-census years, as federal censuses are taken once every ten years, and in many cases city directories were published annually.

They can also fill in the gaps in situations where census records were lost or destroyed. In 1921, a fire at the U.S. Department of Commerce destroyed most of the records from the 1890 census. Despite the loss of the records in the fire, much of the data can be reconstructed using the 1890 city directories on MyHeritage, which consist of directory books from 344 cities across the country, including 88 of the 100 most populated cities during that year.

We are pleased to announce the publication of a huge collection of historical U.S. city directories — an effort that has been two years in the making. The

11/14/2020

A beautiful story of reconciliation across generations from MyHeritage and featured on CNN—

When Thomas Edelmann discovered his grandfather's store had been confiscated from its original Jewish owners under the N**is, he was determined to face up to his family's past.