St. Augustine Genealogical Society

11/11/2025

Two last bird pix from Massachusetts: more turkeys, and about 80 geese on a green pond!

11/08/2025

Did your Irish ancestors leave wills?

Irish ancestry experts Paul Blake and Maggie Loughran explain how to find Irish wills in family history research

11/08/2025

Anyone with Welsh ancestors?

Discover if you have Welsh ancestry with the help of this list of the best Welsh ancestry websites from family history magazine Who Do You Think You Are?

11/07/2025

Interesting discovery in Massachusetts. How many more records are in a back room somewhere out there waiting to be found?

Discovery of the records comes in the months before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “These were individuals who truly believed that they should have a stake in their own government,” said Sheriff Patrick Cahillane.

11/05/2025

An initiative from the Guild of One-Name Studies, starting this Thursday 6th November 7pm

Connect with fellow family historians every Thursday evening at 2 PM (EST) on Zoom. Whether you're stuck on a research problem, exploring new resources, or just keen to share your genealogy journey, this is the place to collaborate, learn, and grow.
Hosted by the Guild of One-Name Studies, open to all genealogists and family history enthusiasts.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://one-name-org.zoom.us/j/83662219104...
Meeting ID: 836 6221 9104
Passcode: 866926

11/04/2025

Our presentation this coming Saturday should be interesting for local and civil war historians as well as we family historians. Amy Giroux will be talking to us about her amazing quest to document every undocumented grave in St Augustine's National Cemetery.
For more details on this and future events, please see: https://www.stauggensoc.org/calendar-1
Remember: second Saturdays, 1pm at the SELibrary on route 1

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10/30/2025

FREE access to deaths, burials, cemetery records and obituaries at MyHeritage until November 2
myheritage.com/halloween

10/21/2025

Nice article. Lots of ads, though!

Planning a trip to a cemetery for genealogy research can lead to great discoveries about ancestors. Here are some tips to help you make the most of your visit.

10/20/2025

Just in case you are having withdrawal symptoms, it might help a little to know you aren't alone!

Ancestry down? Check whether Ancestry.com server is down right now or having outage problems for everyone or just for you.

10/16/2025

MyHeritage has had a couple of big announcements in the past week. Here's one of them.

In September 2025, MyHeritage published 1.2 billion historical records across 24 new and updated collections. These collections are from the United

10/15/2025

Many of our members will have seen or heard Ann Staley present and know what a good job she does. On Monday, October 20, she will be conducting a workshop for the Jacksonville Public Library at the Dallas Graham Branch Library, 2304 Myrtle Avenue N, Jacksonville, FL 32209- Meeting Room from 1:00pm – 3:00pm.

The topic is going to be the U.S. Federal Census (Population and Slave Schedules). It is for their Life Lab Intro to African American Genealogy.

In this 2-hour workshop on U.S. Federal Census (Population & Slave Schedules), she will introduce using census records to help research your ancestors, including those who may have been enslaved. The first hour will be a presentation on the Federal census and then the second hour will be a workshop following a person back in time through the censuses. I will also be using a research plan/report to show how to create and use one.

To register for the free program visit bit.ly/AfricanAmericanHistoryJax

10/03/2025

Wow!

British cousins Ian Brandon (74) and Malcolm Atkins (73) were visiting the grave of their great-great-great grandfather in Northamptonshire, England, on September 22 when they ran into their fourth cousin, Rand Smith (69), who had traveled all the way from Kansas City to do the very same thing.