AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

With the advent of so many new genealogy blogs online, Terry Thornton of Hill Country of Monroe County has challenged all genea-bloggers (...

The September 2008 Scanfest will be held tomorrow, Sunday, September 28th from 11 AM to 2 PM, Pacific Daylight Time. Thomas MacEntee and I...

It's that time of year! The nights are cooling off, and the days are mild and pleasant. Leaves are beginning to turn, and mums are blo...

...this Sunday, September 28th from 11 AM to 2 PM, PDT. Stay tuned for more info and details. Thomas and I are cranking it up to a new leve...

My kids' dad has a couple of ancestral lines on his mother's side that came through Canada. Just as in Part One and Part Two of my ...

In Part One, I listed the Canadian ancestors of my Dad's father's family. Part Two will list his mother's Canadian ancestry. I...

I was so excited to hear that Kathryn Lake Hogan of Looking4Ancestors has begun a Canadian Genealogy Carnival for those of us with Canadia...

HOMESTEAD RECORDS BECOME AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET FOR THE FIRST TIME ON FOOTNOTE.COM Original Records Documenting the Lives of Early Settle...

Poster courtesy footnoteMaven Lori Thornton of Smoky Mountain Family Historian has just posted Part I and Part II of the 56th Edition of t...

For the 56th Carnival of Genealogy, we have been asked to name the top ten books in our personal genealogy libraries. My list includes thos...

Tim Abbot of Walking the Berkshires has just posted Cabinet of Curiosities #9 . The "I Know What You Did Last Summer" Edition ha...

The 5th Edition of the "I Smile For the Camera Carnival" has been posted by the Shady Maven at Shades of the Departed . The them...

Julie Cahill Tarr of GenBlog created a Family Heirloom meme . She wanted to know which family heirlooms people would save in the event of a...

Tom Kemp just announced today that the Social Security Death Index database will now be free to access at his website, GenealogyBank . ...

Site Traffic Tops 1 Million Unique Visitors in August. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 4, 2008 -- Genealogy and family social networking ...

I'm always amazed at the diversity of blogs that come under the heading "genealogy." There are genealogy blogs that focus on ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Footnote.com Takes Social Networking into the Past Footnote.com launches Footnote Pages at TechCrunch50 San Francisco ...

Source: DeVries, Jarig Egbert Binnes "George" and Johanna "Josephine" (Bos/Bush). Undated second-hand digital copy of or...

This past week I took a break from blogging, and simply enjoyed being a reader instead. One of the things I like about Google Reader is tha...

Source: The Midkiff Teens, First Day of School. Digital photograph. 2 September 2008. Privately held by Miriam Robbins Midkiff [ADDRESS FO...