March Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 46 Titles!

By Tony Pettinato on March 1, 2023

An article (with a complete title list) about the new content from 46 newspaper titles that GenealogyBank added to its online archives in March 2023... (Read More)

Photo: Union Cavalry General Philip Sheridan (1831-1888). From "The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Four, The Cavalry," The Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1911, p. 268. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Union Soldier’s Civil War Diary (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on February 28, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story of a Civil War veteran returning to Maryland battlefields in 1924 with his wartime diary... (Read More)

Photo: RootsTech genealogy conference. Credit: mormonnewsroom.org.

See You Online: RootsTech 2023

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on February 27, 2023

Gena Philibert-Ortega – a veteran RootsTech attendee – shares tips for experiencing RootsTech 2023 virtually if you can’t make it in person... (Read More)

Illustration: "Destruction of the R.R. bridge, over the Monocacy River near Frederick, Md." Scene depicts damage caused by Confederate raid, 9 July 1864. Credit: Alfred R. Waud, 1828-1891, artist; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Union Soldier’s Civil War Diary (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on February 24, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a Civil War veteran who returned to Maryland battlefields in 1924 to reminisce and reflect... (Read More)

5 Tips for Attending RootsTech in Person

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on February 23, 2023

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega – a veteran RootsTech attendee – shares five tips to get more out of this amazing genealogy conference... (Read More)

Photo: Civil War-era cannons, Fort Stevens, NW, Washington, D.C. Fort Stevens was part of the extensive fortifications built around the city during the American Civil War. Credit: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Jamestown Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 19 (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on February 21, 2023

Melissa Berry continues her series on descendants of the Jamestown settlers, focusing more on Civil War diarist Elizabeth Virginia Lindsay Lomax... (Read More)

Photo: a poster letting people know that no business will be conducted on Washington's Birthday (then celebrated on February 22), c. 1895. Credit: Edward Penfield; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

3 Facts about Presidents’ Day That May Surprise You

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on February 20, 2023

Gena Philibert-Ortega clears up some confusion about today’s federal holiday: is it Washington’s Birthday or Presidents’ Day or President’s Day?.. (Read More)

Photo: the home of "Mayflower" passenger Stephen Hopkins (1581-1644) at Plimoth Plantation, a reconstruction of Plymouth Colony, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Courtesy of World Encyclopedia.

‘Mayflower’ Mutiny & Other Musings on Stephen Hopkins (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on February 17, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the trouble that seemed to continually follow Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins... (Read More)

Photo: from the Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant: Stephen Hopkins, his wife Elizabeth, and their children -- including infant son Oceanus, the only child born during the Mayflower's journey across the Atlantic. Photo taken in August 1921 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, by Edward P. McLaughlin. Credit: in the collection of the Plymouth Public Library. Courtesy of Digital Commonwealth.

‘Mayflower’ Mutiny & Other Musings on Stephen Hopkins (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on February 15, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry focuses on historian Edward Rowe Snow writing about his Mayflower ancestor, Stephen Hopkins... (Read More)