If you were looking for a royal (or noble) ancestor in the First Edition of Gary Boyd Roberts’ signature work, the two-volume Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, but came up empty, don’t despair. In compiling the new Second Edition of RD 900, Mr. Roberts has identified[…]Read more
Beginning in 1952, we changed the field of genealogy by reprinting the best books covering the last three centuries and making them available and affordable. In 1973 we published the first modern, comprehensive textbook in the field and, ever since, have produced hundreds upon hundreds of original source record collections, genealogies, and more how to[…]Read more
Earlier this month, the New England Historic Genealogical Society presented Elizabeth Shown Mills with its distinguished Coddington Award of Merit. The award is named after John Insley Coddington, who, after Donald Lines Jacobus, is considered the dean of 20th-century American genealogists. The Codington award recognizes significant accomplishments and contributions in the field. Elizabeth Shown Mills,[…]Read more
We are little more than a week away from RootsTech Connect 2022, organized by FamilySearch.org. Due to Covid, and as in 2021, the annual RootsTech conference will be entirely online. Last’s year virtual conference was viewed by over a million genealogists from around the world, marking it as the largest genealogy event in history. RootsTech[…]Read more
With the New Year now upon us, we wanted to take this opportunity to recall our major publications of 2023. In case you missed some of our announcements, here are the highlights: Here are brief descriptions of all of our key books of 2023. You’ll also find links to more detailed accounts of each. MY[…]Read more
The Russian war in Ukraine has caused much worry about the loss of archival records. A small portion of records were scanned before the war started in February. Soon after the war began in February, staff from FamilySearch International stopped scanning Ukrainian archive records. Their work only had started in late spring 2021. Meanwhile Ukrainian[…]Read more
We are all smiles at Genealogical.com. Why? At its recently concluded annual conference held in Sacramento, California, the National Genealogical Society announced that the book, How To Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records by Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson, had won the 2022 Award for Excellence: Methods & Sources Book Competition.[…]Read more
Genealogy multimedia conglomerate Family Tree Magazine has awarded Genealogical.com “Best “BIG” Genealogy Websites of 2021“. We’re thrilled and humbled to learn that the editors at Family Tree have named Genealogical.com as one of their 101 Best Websites of 2021. Our site was named in the subcategory of “best big genealogy sites.” Here’s what they had[…]Read more
Since the Spring, we have been describing the features of our new eBook subscription program, MY GPC LIBRARY. We have placed our nearly 800 eBook titles—a $40,000 value in print–on this exciting new platform. For the first time, subscribers can look for names or places across all our eBooks–not just book-by-book—in a single search. The[…]Read more
From its beginnings in 1893 until the 1950s, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography devoted considerable space to the publication of genealogical source material. In all, the Magazine published nearly 5,000 pages of compiled genealogies and related source material. In 1981, Genealogical Publishing Company (Genealogical.com) re-arranged the genealogies, so that each is complete in[…]Read more
Genealogical.com’s 2022/2023 Catalogue is now available for downloading. The 32-page catalogue features the newest and most popular books and e-books bearing either the Genealogical Publishing Company or Clearfield Company imprint. The 2022/2023 Catalogue contains descriptions of over 300 titles and includes the following categories: How-To Books and Manuals, General Reference, Census Records, Immigration & Passenger[…]Read more
Like most genealogical societies, the National Genealogical Society will be holding its annual conference virtually this year. In fact the 2021 conference is literally days away (May 17-21). Here’s NGS’ vision for this year’s event: “Learn new strategies, resources, records, and techniques to sharpen your family history skills at the National Genealogical Society (NGS) Family[…]Read more
