We’ve written previously about our new guidebook, The Complete Guide to Lineage Societies, by Dr. Kimberly Nagy. In scarcely 80 pages, Dr. Nagy tells you everything you need to know if you’ve ever wondered about becoming a member of a lineage society. She begins with a description of what lineage societies have in common, what[…]Read more
“Tree Talks” is the celebrated quarterly of the Central New York Genealogical Society. In a review for the August 2024 issue, Joyce Cook, a former editor of the magazine, refers to Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy, by Drew Smith, as “a road map for basic genealogy research, a clearly[…]Read more
Reviewers have praised Elizabeth Shown Mills’s fourth edition of Evidence Explained for its new chapter: “Building a Citation.” Step by step, this tutorial explains the building blocks of a citation and how to layer those blocks to handle today’s complicated online sources. Mills’s tutorial concludes with fourteen universal templates that can be used to cite[…]Read more
Any researcher who works with he records of turn-of-the-18th-century New York should be delighted to learn about the following new research aid: New York in 1698: A Comprehensive List of Residents, Based on Census, Tax, and Other Lists, by Kory L. Meyerink. Genealogist Meyerink spent over two decades piecing together a comprehensive census of the[…]Read more
Genealogy is about solving puzzles. Who is related to whom? Who was my immigrant ancestor? How far back in time can I go? Do I have a famous ancestor? And so on. Family history is different. If you want others to learn about where you and they came from, you must command their attention. As[…]Read more
MY GPC LIBRARY, our eBook subscription program, consists of about 800 eBook titles and growing. Subscribers can look for names or places across all our eBooks–not just book by book—in a single search. The platform allows you to set bookmarks, make notes, and add citations as you work. Because you will have access to the entirety[…]Read more
Since her retirement, trauma surgeon Dr. Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD, AG, has embraced genealogy and lineage societies as her “second career”. She joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1980, and is today a member of 80 lineage organizations. She has served as an officer in several of them including in the role as[…]Read more
One of the reasons millions of Americans—and especially descendants of New England colonists—have royal ancestry has to do with inheritance practices of western European nations. As Gary Boyd Roberts explained in the Volume 19:3 (2018) issue of American Ancestors Magazine, “Younger sons or daughters of kings (who are entitled to nothing) become or marry nobles,[…]Read more
Between 1997 and 2024, Genealogical.com published the nine-volume series, Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, by Dr. David Dobson. We are delighted to present those books in a new, fully indexed, consolidated edition. Although Scottish soldiers could be found in the Americas during the seventeenth century—oftentimes originally transported as prisoners of war and subsequently recruited into[…]Read more
Claire Bradley is a Dublin-based genetic genealogist, who specializes in Irish ancestry. Ms. Bradley has been blogging for twelve years. On June 24, 2024, Claire posted the following review of Roberta Estes’ new book, The Complete Guide to Family TreeDNA: Y-DNA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA. “The Complete Guide to Family Tree DNA The moment I[…]Read more
