(This article was originally prepared for the New England Historic Genealogical Society website, American Ancestors, and is reproduced here with the permission of the author.) Of about one-third New England, one-third mid-Atlantic, and one-third Southern ancestry, George Herbert Walker Bush was the first U.S. president probably related to over half of the American people—at least[…]Read more
We are closing out the old year with a bang. You will find below brief descriptions of three new books by highly respected authors. Ernest Thode has produced an expanded New Second Edition of his popular research aid, Historic German Newspapers Online. Joseph Lee Boyle, who has compiled a number of books that identify runaway[…]Read more
(Introductory price in effect until 11:59 PM, Wednesday, November 21, 2018) [av_image src=’https://genealogical.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/History_octnov_2016-300×197.jpg’ attachment=’5663′ attachment_size=’medium’ align=’right’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’ av-mini-hide=’aviaTBav-mini-hide’ admin_preview_bg=” av_uid=’av-7vjli5′][/av_image] Following General James Oglethorpe’s initial settling of Europeans from England, Scotland, and the Palatine to the Georgia Colony and the dissolution of the Georgia trustees’[…]Read more
City directories may be one of the most underused genealogical sources available. Old city directories exist for virtually every community in America, often going back to the establishment of a community. Many of the privately published city directories date back over a hundred years, and some of these collections are complete for every year in[…]Read more
6 genealogy-at-a-glance guides in ONE convenient bundle! Only 18 bundles left in stock!Sale Expires 11:59 PM EST, Thursday, December 20, 2018 We have selected six of our outstanding laminated research guides and put them together in one convenient package to address your daily research needs. These six guides cover some of the most important topics in genealogy,[…]Read more
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This article originally appeared on our prior website/blog in March 2010. It is reprinted here with minor alterations. In January of 2010, Ancestry.com announced to its subscribers the introduction of the “1950 Census Substitute” and urged us to “discover your parents, grandparents – – maybe even yourself.” Taken at face value, this announcement was pretty[…]Read more
If you buy your genealogy books on Amazon.com, we encourage you to read the reviews posted there pertaining to the new 4th Edition of The Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy. Most of them are written by users/readers of the 4th edition, and generally speaking, they sing the praises of the first new edition since 2000.[…]Read more
Using DNA to find your family heritage has become an everyday topic of conversation. If you haven’t personally sent a saliva sample in the mail, you know someone who has. And you can barely miss a day without seeing a commercial from Ancestry or My Heritage advertising one of its DNA products. Just a few[…]Read more
With the transcription and publication of The Albemarle Parish Vestry Book, 1742-1786 [Virginia] the last of the colonial Virginia vestry books is accessible to researchers. Complete with an every-name index for ease in finding persons, this publication represents a boon to researchers searching for ancestors in Surry and Sussex counties, Virginia, as well as neighboring[…]Read more
