Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary uses information from a historical newspaper article—and photos from the Library of Congress—to show how you can read clues from the uniform your Civil War ancestor is wearing in that old family photo. Are... (Read More)
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary presents some of the best keyboard shortcuts that save time when you’re doing online genealogy research. If you’ve been staying indoors to escape the bitter cold of this season’s Polar Vortex, chances are you’ve... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives advice on how to get the most out of RootsTech 2014, the largest genealogy conference in the U.S. .. (Read More)
Scott Phillips searches old newspapers to find stories about the history of Groundhog Day, and takes a playful look at Punxsutawney Phil’s genealogy... (Read More)
Payton Manning and Clay Matthews come from famous football families. Learn about five of the most successful and famous NFL families and their family trees... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena shows how useful newspaper obituaries are for your family history research—and explains clues in obituaries that even some experienced genealogists might miss. Obituaries are the newspaper articles that most genealogists cut their research... (Read More)
For the first time, GenealogyBank has broken into the top 10 on a list of the Top 100 Genealogy Websites of 2014 from around the world, reaching the rank of #10. This annual best of genealogy websites list is produced by GenealogyInTime Magazine. The rankings are based on one important measurement: actual traffic flow,... (Read More)
An article about Town Line, New York – a northern town that seceded from the Union in 1861 – and did not come back to the United States until 1946... (Read More)
An article (with a complete title list) about the 27 Colonial newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
