Emily Jean Stone was born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeffrey Charles Stone, the…
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During the last indexing week, you were almost 2,000 participants and you have indexed more than 200,000 records. To mark the Armistice of 11 November…
In celebration of Family History Month, we ran a contest throughout the month of October for a chance for one lucky winner to receive a free…
Throughout our lives, we accumulate a lot of items—old journals, faded photos, treasured heirlooms, day-to-day documents. And in the wake of losing a loved one,…
Remember watching Gone With the Wind? On this day in 1913, star Vivien Leigh was born in Darjeeling, India. Image: Vivien Leigh / Wikimedia Commons Leigh…
Two hundred thousand years ago, the earliest shared ancestors of every living human on Earth rested their feet at a verdant oasis in the middle…
A Victorian bottle thought to have been used to ward off evil spells has been found at the birthplace of a “witch”. Angeline Tubbs, known…
A resident was left shocked when workers renovating his home found a WWII bunker hidden underneath the driveway. Labourers at Surj Singh’s home in Bradford,…
Baby names come and go, like hairstyles, trouser-lengths and Brexit deadline extensions. Sure, Noah is extremely popular right now, as it was 12,000 years ago…
Scientists have re-created the face of a female Viking warrior who lived more than 1,000 years ago. The woman is based on a skeleton found…
On this day in 1879, vaudeville performer and cowboy humorist Will Rogers was born. Rogers is remembered as “America’s Cowboy Philosopher.” Image: Will Rogers /…
In 1619, a group of kidnapped Africans forcibly disembarked from ships on the shores of colonial Virginia. They were not the first people to be…
Wondering how to best use your new FamilySearch account? Here are five simple tasks you can try. 1. Take a name to the temple. Ordinances…
Have you read The Red Badge of Courage? On November 1, 1871, author Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey. Image: Stephen Crane /…
Do you have a family brigadeiro recipe or love Brazilian cheese bread? Or maybe some of your ancestors came from Brazil but you don’t know…
On this day in 1795, English Romantic poet John Keats was born in London, England. The son of Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings, Keats was…
Have you seen any old photos with ghostly images? Chances are you may be looking at an old spirit photograph. During the late 19th and…
Happy birthday to Henry Winkler! Today the actor turns 74. Image: Henry Winkler / Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Wikimedia Commons (OGL v1.0) Born on October 30, 1945…
Jenna grew up knowing nothing about her biological family or any other possible siblings. She always yearned to know more about where she came from.…
FamilySearch expanded its free online archives in October of 2019 with over 14.8 million new indexed family history records and over 400 thousand digital images…