Happy birthday to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall! Today the Duchess turns 73. She was born Camilla Rosemary Shand on July 17, 1947 at King’s College…
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MyHeritage recently added 7 new health reports to the MyHeritage Health test, bringing the total of comprehensive health reports the test offers to 42. One…
Are you a fan of old fashioned Hollywood musicals? Today we remember Ginger Rogers, who was born on this day in 1911. Image: Ginger Rogers /…
Our immigrant ancestors often created documents that were especially valuable for genealogy. Passenger lists, border crossings, naturalizations, and passports are just a few. Though these…
Lisa interviews Faruq Tauheed, host of the NBC TV series “Roots Less Traveled” about the show and his own genealogy journey. Plus, highlights from the…
Over the past several months, it’s become clear that the coronavirus pandemic will change our lives in many ways — not least of which, the…
On this day in 1606, Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn was born. An artist during the Dutch Golden Age, today Rembrandt is considered to be…
Blighty Valley was the name given by the Army to the lower part of the deep valley running down South-Westward through Authuile Wood to join…
Today we remember folk singer Woody Guthrie on what would have been his 108th birthday. Image: Woody Guthrie / Library of Congress He was born…
Happy birthday to Harrison Ford! Today the actor turns 78. Image: Harrison Ford / Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Ford was born on…
In 2015, a genealogist who had compiled an archive of records of the Irish Jewish community spanning 400 years presented copies of the 16 volumes,…
Picture of Hemi Pomara posing in London in 1846 was discovered at the national library of Australia by researchers. Source: geneanet
The last known members of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland were thought to have died out 200 years ago. Source: geneanet
Researchers under the leadership of Prof. Minna Rozen, then of Tel Aviv University, worked from 1988 to 1990 travelling across Turkey taking over 100,000 photos…
Following a four-year modernisation and digitisation project and a AU$16 million backing from the federal government, the National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched the…
Do you have immigrant ancestors who came to the United States? If you do, then looking for their passenger arrival records could provide you with…
We’re happy to announce that we’ll be offering free access to all birth records on MyHeritage from July 10–16, 2020! Search birth records on MyHeritage…
The United States borders both Canada and Mexico. If you have immigrant ancestors who entered the United States through Canada or Mexico—or even had ancestors…
Happy birthday, Tom Hanks! Today the popular actor turns 64. Image: Tom Hanks / U.S. Department of State Thomas Jeffery Hanks was born on July…
We just added 8.3 million historical records in June from six new collections from the U.K., Spain, and New Zealand. Four million records from a…