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Many family historians hit an invisible wall—a frustrating moment when meticulously collected research fragments suddenly stop making sense. Birth certificates vanish, family stories contradict official…
When we research our family history, we’re doing more than just collecting names and dates. We’re exploring the lives of our ancestors, trying to understand…
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In attics, basements, and forgotten storage boxes across the nation, irreplaceable family histories are quietly disintegrating. Fragile photographs, century-old letters, and delicate documents are falling…
In November 2024, we published 143 million historical records from 13 collections. The newly added records come from the United States, Canada, Belgium, Ireland, and…
In this episode of the Family Tree Magazine Podcast, Lisa Lisson explains what makes a person a cousin and offers tips for determining cousinhood. Feature:…
With Geneastar, the celebrity genealogy site by Geneanet, you can learn in just a few clicks if you are related to a famous person. The…
Have you ever heard of Geneastar? Geneastar is a Geneanet website that focuses on the genealogy of famous people. Some new famous family trees have…
Because cemeteries are one of the most important resources for genealogists, Geneanet has launched the project “Save our Graves” to capture graves before they are…
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Movies influence our lives far beyond simple entertainment. It turns out, they also influence the choices parents make about how to name their children —…
Find your Swedish ancestors with these top resources. The free FamilySearch site has millions of Swedish vital records from church books along with nearly 47…
A: As this researcher implies, the parish of origin is a key detail in Swedish genealogy. The state Lutheran church was tasked with recordkeeping for…
From the mid-1840s to 1930, nearly 1.3 million Swedes left for the United States—placing the departures, as a proportion of a European place’s population, behind…