Category Archives: News

I’m happy to announce that the Illinois State Genealogical Society’s Fall Conference will host George G. Morgan as the featured speaker!  In addition to George, Thomas MacEntee will be back this year, along with many other great speakers, all covering a wide range of topics. […]

I’ve been hearing the rumors all week and today I received the following press release from Findmypast.com.    PERSI Finds New Home on findmypast Partnership with the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center adds 2.5 million records dating back to 1800 LOS ANGELES (July 19, […]

I received the following press release from Thomas MacEntee regarding a new resource for genealogists called Hack Genealogy.  I’ve know for awhile that Thomas has been working on this new project, so I ‘m excited to see it finally come to fruition.

Treelines is a unique web-based tool that allows you to share your family stories through words and images.  There are many ways to use this tool and I encourage you to read the about page.  I also suggest taking a look at what other people […]

Earlier today I announced that I had merged all of my genealogy blogs into one and moved to WordPress.  In addition to that massive project, I also moved my genealogy business website.  Both the blog and website are now one cohesive entity residing on the […]

I finally decided it was time to make a change.  And approaching my 5th blog anniversary in less than two weeks, why not celebrate with a major overhaul of my genealogy blogs.  Basically, I decided to combine my three blogs into one hub and move […]

What a nice surprise I found waiting for me on Facebook when I logged on a little bit ago.  Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers tagged me in a post revealing Inside History Magazine’s 50 Genealogy Blogs You Need to Read in 2013. I’m quite honored to […]

I received the following email today from Treelines introducing collaboration. The #1 feature request we’ve gotten is that you want to work with your family to build your family tree and write stories together. Well, today is the day—now you can! Maybe you have a […]