On this day in 1954, actor, director, and producer Ron Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. Image: David Shankbone / Wikimedia Commons, (CC BY 3.0)…
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We’re pleased to tell you about a very special limited-time offer we’re launching this week: from March 1, 2022, until March 8, 2022, you can…
2022 is off to a great start! Over the last two months, we’ve added 277 million new records from 34 new collections. From France, we’ve…
The Release How to Prepare Form Image Census Questions History How to Search How to Read the Census Resources The release of a US census…
RootsTech 2022 is coming up fast! In just one week, the world’s largest genealogy conference will be here once again. Last year, the conference was…
Today we remember actor Don Knotts, who passed away on this day in 2006. Knotts was perhaps best known for his memorable portrayal of Deputy Barney…
Marriage records — the most romantic of vital records — can provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of our ancestors. While birth and death…
Kate Rooney Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for work in television, playing reporter Zoe Barnes in the Netflix…
We are pleased to announce the publication of 5.8 million records from 28 historical record collections of Jewish historical records. The collections span the 18th–21st…
When you close your eyes and picture Abraham Lincoln, is he clean-shaven or bearded? Most people would imagine him with a beard. This is how…
On 3 October 1918, the 1st King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry captured Prospect Hill, after Le Catelet and Gouy had been taken by the 50th…
In this episode, Family Tree University instructor Shamele Jordon joins us to discuss challenges in African American genealogy research and how family historians can overcome…
The first Norwegians to arrive in North America, in about the year 1000, were led by Leif Eriksson, whose grandfather was born in Norway but…
Your Geneanet family tree can be compared to others with corresponding identical data, but there is also an automatic matching feature which can quickly indicate…
When the 1950 census images are released in April, genealogists everywhere will be scrambling to find their families (and sometimes their own names) on those…
On this day in 1923, archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. The tomb of the boy king is considered to be one…
Love is in the air! Celebrate Valentine’s Day by diving into the love stories in your family history with this special offer: all marriage records…
Geneanet DNA celebrates two years online this month! Some great new features have appeared these past few weeks, and this anniversary is the ideal occasion…
On this day in 1773, William Henry Harrison, the 9th President of the United States, was born on the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County,…