1. Gale Launches Archival Slavery Reference Source

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Gale (www.gale.com), a part of Cengage Learning (www.cengage.…

  2. Poland to Rebury German Civilians Found in WWII Mass Grave

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Polish authorities will rebury the remains of more than 2,100 people, mostly German civilians, recently exhumed from a World War II mass grave found in northeastern…

  3. Wimbledon Fans Park In Graveyard

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News St Mary's Church in Wimbledon Village, south-west London had been charging £20 a day to park in its cemetery. The money goes to three charities.…

  4. Language Change Can Be Traced Using Gigantic Text Archives

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen American and British newspapers since they started are now available electronically.…

  5. Scheduled Maintenance

    From The Geni Blog Update 9:40 PM Pacific: Geni.com is back online.We'll be taking Geni.com down for about 30 minutes tonight, starting at 9:00 PM Pacific.…

  6. Get help from experts at Expert Connect

    From Ancestry.com Blog We have just launched the beta version of a new service called Expert Connect. This new service connects Ancestry.…

  7. Decades-Old Letter Found In Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Wall

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News For decades, it was a secret encased in brick and plaster, undetected by the thousands who passed by each year.…

  8. The Kansas Historical Society Has Been Awarded Funding To Participate In The National Digital Newspaper Program

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News The Kansas Historical Society has been awarded funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program.…

  9. Coming soon: enhancements to the ancestry.com image page

    From Ancestry.com Blog We have been working on a few enhancements for the image page to make it easier for you to read what is on the page, and then to add your own knowledge about your ancestors to…

  10. Free webinar: “Genetic Genealogy Made Easy”: Wed., July 8, at 8 PM EST.

    From Ancestry.com Blog On Wednesday, July 8 at 8 PM, we’ll introduce family historians to the basics of DNA testing for genealogy.…

  11. ArchivePress: A New Project To Explore Practical Issues Around The Archiving Of Weblog Content

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News ArchivePress is a blog-archiving project being undertaken by the University of London Computer Centre and the British Library Digital Preservation department, funded by the…

  12. Baby Names: Parker, Broderick Go Old-Fashioned

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick dug into their family roots for the names of their twin daughters.…

  13. Ten New Family Trees Have Been Added to FamilyTreeTemplates.net

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Ten new family trees have been added to the Web site FamilyTreeTemplates.net.…

  14. Scheduled Maintenance

    From The Geni Blog We'll be taking Geni.com down for about 30 minutes tonight, starting at 9:00 PM Pacific. Updates will be posted here.…

  15. FamilySearch Alpha Design Concepts - Hot off the Press

    From FamilySearch Labs Blog We’ve been working to refine the designs of the FamilySearch Alpha project.…

  16. Henry VIII Letter to Pope Pleading for Divorce Reproduced

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News It weighs in at 2.5 kilos, has 81 wax seals dangling from it and at €50,000 (£43,000) costs more than the average piece of ­Vatican merchandising.…

  17. More Nixon Tapes Available to Public

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News The Richard Nixon Presidential Library has opened up access to 154 hours of White House tapes and other documents the U.S. government once classified.…

  18. Russia Returns History Documents to Austria

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lawrow, who is visiting Austria right now, gave the archives taken by Russian troops during World War II back to the Austrian Foreign Minister…

  19. Temporary website problems earlier today (now resolved)

    From Ancestry.com Blog We experienced some temporary issues on the site earlier today that may have caused errors when trying to log in or when using other portions of the website.…

  20. Family Tree Maker: Come visit us at the Southern California Jamboree

    From Ancestry.com Blog The Southern California Genealogy Jamboree is coming up this week in Burbank, California, June 26-28th. Come visit us at the Ancestry.com booth any time during the Jamboree.…

  21. U.S. National Archives Launches YouTube Channel

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News On Friday, June 19, the U.S.…

  22. National Archives Launches YouTube Channel

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News On Friday, June 19, the National Archives will formally launch a YouTube channel to showcase popular archived films, inform the public about upcoming events around the…

  23. 1776 Black Document Discovered: A Story of Freedom for July 4th

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News The earliest known manuscript about an African-American in the new United States has been identified by a Yonkers dealer.…

  24. New in MyCanvas: Descendant family tree posters

    From Ancestry.com Blog During our webinar on family history books back in January, two-thirds of the audience—nearly 1,200 Ancestry.…

  25. Most Cologne Archive Documents Intact Despite Collapse

    From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News Three months after the collapse of Cologne’s city archives, experts are amazed by how many of the precious documents have survived the devastating accident.…