Online resources are the best tools when searching for your family in North American archives. Digital databases, such as MyHeritage, give you access to a…
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We’re excited to announce that LiveMemory is now available on the MyHeritage website! LiveMemory is our groundbreaking feature that transforms any still photo into an…
Digitization has made it easier to search for your family in Asian archives with online databases, like MyHeritage. Discovering the branches of your family tree…
Online databases are the most common way to search for your family in African archives. However, it can be a challenging and frustrating experience if…
When building a family tree, the basic expectation is that you’ll uncover births, marriages, deaths, and hopefully even some immigration records. But there’s another life…
My grandmother — we always called her Busia — left Poland in the 1920s to start a new life in the United States. She left…
If you’ve ever found a will while researching your family tree, you know just how powerful that document can be. Many wills from the 18th,…
When a friend of mine first uncovered their grandmother’s marriage certificate, they thought they had the full story – until a conversation with her aunt…
For over 50 years, I lived with a version of my story that felt… incomplete. I believed, as I had always been told, that I…
A friend of mine was hitting a wall trying to crack the case of her 3rd-great-grandmother’s land dispute in rural Virginia — until she finally…
In this episode of Best Websites, Rick Crume highlights some translation tools for making sense of foreign-language records. Best Genealogy Websites: Translation Tools One of…
In the world of genealogy, everyone’s family is shaped by major events, whether talking about a new job, marriage or the pursuit of better opportunities.…
We’re happy to announce an exciting new feature exclusive to Geni Pro subscribers – Relationship Path Diagrams! These easy-to-read visualizations offer a fresh way to…
It’s easy to take surnames for granted, as they’re just part of who we are. The thing is, surnames haven’t always existed, and they were…
I always knew there was something different about my story. Growing up in France, Belgium, and Africa, I often wondered about my origins. Every time…
From May 31st through June 8, we asked the Geneanet community to help us transcribe index cards from the New York City Geographical Birth Index.…
On June 15, 1904, New York City experienced its worst disaster until 9/11 when the palace steamer General Slocum caught fire in Hell’s Gate and…
Once you start building your family tree, you quickly find out that the process requires you to be something of a detective. Along the way,…