We just received this press release from FindMyPast.com, and the ramifications are really quite huge. Given the huge numbers of Catholic immigrants to the US, as well as the numbers...
For my day job, I review engineering reports for a forensic engineering firm. Forensic engineering is not so much how to build a house, but why did it fall down....
JoyFLIPS is a new, completely free iPhone photo scanning/editing/sharing/storing app. With the JoyFLIPS app, you can quickly and easily make high-quality scans of loose photos, photos still in albums, or even...
I’ve added a page to this website with a pinboard-style direct, live, connection to our online collection of all completely hand-picked, interesting genealogy-related news articles and stories that we share...
Cool Tools / Featured / Maps / Websites
It’s been a while since I last wrote about Randy Majors‘ Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps tool — a very handy interactive map that will show you the boundaries of...
Here’s a pretty awesome bit of RootsTech news from the very cool smartphone photo scanning app, Joyflips: JoyFlips giving away $80,000 worth of FamilyArchive™ Kits at RootsTech Launch of Version...
We just received this press release this morning outlining What’s Coming from FamilySearch in 2018, and, Wow! This is exciting! More awesomeness from FamilySearch, and as always, free! What’s Coming...
I came across a new-to-me archive of Civil War letters recently. The project, “Corpus of American Civil War Letters,” under the direction of Michael Ellis, Missouri State University, and Michael...
Have you ever been frustrated that a book you were hoping would be digitized was just past the 1923 cutoff date, thus in copyright and unable to be digitized? Don’t...
Email is an important part of any genealogy research project. Whether it’s contacting relatives or contacting strangers for more information on an ancestor; requesting documents, copies, photos that mention your ancestor;...
Have you heard about the new website, NationalDNADay.com yet? It is a new, free resource to the genealogy community celebrating all things DNA, as they relate to genealogy research. The...
