1. New Pro Feature: Collaborators!

    From The Geni Blog Geni is designed to help users collaborate with each other on building a shared family tree.…

  2. New Feature: Matches on New Profiles

    From The Geni Blog One of the advantages of collaborating with others on building your family tree is avoiding duplicate work.…

  3. More New Features: Relatives, Locations and Photos

    From The Geni Blog Simplified Location Editing Location entry fields now take full advantage of the Google Maps API to find the exact location you are trying to enter.…

  4. We’ll be right back

    From The Geni Blog We're getting some new features ready. The site may be down for a few minutes while we make the final preparations.…

  5. Family Tree Maker 2009: Web Clipping

    From Ancestry.com Blog Most Family Tree Maker users are familiar with the process of merging Ancestry.com facts and records into their tree.…

  6. California, Here We Come!

    From Ancestry.com Blog Join Ancestry.…

  7. Unique Roman Glass Dish Discovered At London Grave

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Archeologists have discovered an exquisite Roman polychrome millefiori dish in East London, U.K.…

  8. High Teen Genealogist Wins $10K for College

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Bingham High School senior Brad Jencks is the Utah winner of the 2009 AXA Achievement Scholarship In association with U.S. News and World Report.…

  9. Native Americans Descended From A Single Ancestral Group, DNA Study Confirms

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or…

  10. Soldier’s Letters Give First-Hand Look at Spanish Flu Pandemic

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News As World War I rages in Europe, fresh U.S. Army soldiers pass the time on a train ride to to Camp Forrest, Georgia.…

  11. Inside the Mexican Suitcase: Previously Unknown Shots by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour During the Spanish Civil War

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a…

  12. City of Rome, Georgia, U.S., Cemetery Burial Data Now Online

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Thanks to a new burial data program on the city of Rome's Web site, genealogy researchers and loved ones may have an easier time locating their ancestors buried in Rome's…

  13. Michigan Archaeologist to Study ex-Pauper Cemetery

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News An archaeologist from Michigan wants to use remote sensing equipment to look for graves in a ravine once used for pauper burials at Shreveport's Greenwood Cemetery -- and…

  14. New MyCanvas features: Layout switching, photo swapping, better panning

    From Ancestry.com Blog Last weekend I took my niece and nephew to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, UT.…

  15. Great Escape’ Gardener, 97, Dies

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News One of the last surviving prisoners of war (PoW) from Stalag Luft III, the focus of the 1963 film The Great Escape, has died in Scotland.…

  16. Old Portuguese-Language Newspaper Now Read All Over

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News In what is seen as a boon to genealogists and local scholars, UMass Dartmouth announced Tuesday that more than 50 years of the former New Bedford Portuguese-language…

  17. America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News This year marks the 22nd annual list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.…

  18. More relevant search results are coming this Wednesday

    From Ancestry.com Blog There is a long list of things we want to improve in search (and in new search in particular) – and we’ve started with what you’ve told us is the most important –…

  19. British Library: Henry VIII Key Documents Online

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Key documents from the life and times of Henry VIII, the pious yet bloodthirsty king whose reign forever changed the nature of England.…

  20. Officials Said the Person Believed to be the First Swine Flu Fatality Worked as a Census-Taker in Oaxaca

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News The first officially confirmed fatality from the disease occurred April 13.…

  21. New Image Viewer Enhancements at WorldVitalRecords.com

    From WorldVitalRecords Blog By Whitney McGowan, FamilyLink.com WorldVitalRecords.com recently made an enhancement to its image viewer, allowing for better resolution on newspaper images.…

  22. FamCam Available as iPhone Application: Share Photos Easily with Your Family

    From WorldVitalRecords Blog By Whitney McGowan, FamilyLink.com, Inc. On April 21, 2009 FamilyLink.com, Inc. released its first iPhone application, FamCam.…

  23. Geer’s Hartford City Directories Online at WorldVitalRecords.com

    From WorldVitalRecords Blog This week’s major collection at WorldVitalRecords.com includes five new databases containing Geer’s Hartford City Directories for 1902, 1908, 1912-1913, and 1914.…

  24. Home Sweet Home: The Man Who’s Lived in the Same Flat for 100 Years

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News A retired ice cream seller is celebrating today after living in the same flat for a century.…

  25. Some of our data sets are not returning results in search

    From Ancestry.com Blog As some of you have noticed, some of our data sets are not returning results when they are searched. We are currently working on it and I will post updates as I get them.…