Have you ever wondered about the military service of a family member? Perhaps a grandfather who fought in World War II, a great-uncle who served…
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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…
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On this day in 1898, aviator Wiley Post was born. Image: Wiley Post / San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive, Flickr Post was born…
Imagine that iconic photo of your mother as a young dancer, or of you and your siblings playing together on the beach as children. Wouldn’t…
If your last name is Summerbell, you are probably among the final bearers of this surname. To date, it is held by only 98 people…
FamilySearch has vast resources for your family history. Over decades, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has curated historical records from around the…