Newsletter Archives
Catch up on the latest in family history with these articles from GenealogyBank News
June 2026 Newsletter
Melissa Davenport Berry writes: Today I resume my series on Revolutionary War Patriots who descend from
Mayflower passengers or married into
Mayflower lines, following the research compiled by past Elder Historian-General Muriel Cushing of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, known as the Patriot to Passenger Bridge Project.
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Gena Philibert-Ortega writes: You’ve conducted a search for your ancestors in historical newspapers on the GenealogyBank website. Days, weeks, or months pass by and you decide to repeat that search, because GenealogyBank continually adds new content. That’s a great idea – but how can you guarantee you’re not looking at the same newspaper article again?
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James Pylant writes: Here is the sixth and final article in this series about the Billingsley family. Touching on genealogy, crime, and celebrity, it traces the family connections from Barbara Billingsley of Leave It to Beaver to Peter Billingsley of A Christmas Story, as well as to the owner of the famous Stork Club.
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GenealogyBank is pleased to announce a large addition to our website: we have just added 15.5 million obituaries and funeral notices, from 1998 to today – and going forward we will be adding 2 million more each month!
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Currently, GenealogyBank features over 16,000 newspapers from all 50 states, with more than 346 million obituaries and death records. Here are details about our most recent addition: a total of 118 titles from 27 states plus 2 from the District of Columbia and 1 national title – 112 of the 121 titles added this month are newspapers added to GenealogyBank for the first time.
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