Category Archives: News

As I mentioned earlier this week, I am participating in the Simple Gifts Blog Hop sponsored by Flip-Pal™.  Things have been so crazy this week, I’ve only been able to play around with the scanner for about an hour.  I hope to get started on […]

Apparently I missed the boat on this little tidbit of information, but perhaps I’m not the only one.  Did you know that all of the back issues of the now-out-of-publication Ancestry Magazine are available on Google Books.  Yes, that’s right, all of them, in full, […]

A 500-word essay about your family history could win you a complete Premium publishing package from Abbot Press, a Family Tree Magazine partner.  The deadline is September 30, but they will only draw the grand prize winner from the first 200 submissions. For complete details, […]

Back in April I wrote Are You Up for the Challenge? discussing the project that FGS is working on to digitize the War of 1812 pension files. In that post I reported that Indiana Genealogical Society stated a matching program where they will match contributions […]

Thanks to some friends on Facebook, I was just introduced to a new blog with a very interesting concept.  It’s called Dear Photograph.  The basic idea is to “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.”  You then submit your photo […]

There was a great article in the Geneva (IL) Republican about genealogy and its popularity.  The Kane County Genealogical Society was also highlighted in the article.  This is so wonderful to see.  And I am especially excited since I have ancestors from Kane County!  You […]

I recently found an article about a genealogist in Maryland who found an old photo album in an antique store, purchased it, spent several hours researching the photos, and eventually reunited the album with family.  The article can be found here. The article also mentioned […]

The Unclaimed Persons project, which helps find next of kin for the deceased, has move to a new home at http://www.unclaimed-persons.org/forums.  Even if you were a member of the group on Facebook, you will need to register at the new site.