April 2017

Introducing the New Geneanet Image Viewer

Geneanet.org , the FamilySearch.org Partner Program, has introduced a new image viewer . Quoting from their website, Geneanet was ...

AsktheAncestors.com is a new free genealogical social networking program. The program is explained as follows: Ask The Ancestors offer...

The Brigham Young University Family History Library is undoubtedly the second largest such library in the world. In addition, many of th...

Smartphones, social networking, email, newly digitized sources, new programs and apps, updates, books, music, videos, all of this and mor...

Some time ago, I took a DNA test from MyHeritage.com . You can read about those results in my post entitled, " My DNA: What have we ...

Eventually, everyone who becomes involved in genealogical research reaches the point where their ancestors spoke a different language ...

Well, the list of Latin Legal Terms seems to have taken a vacation for a while, but it is now back and well rested [ bene quievit ]. Pe...

The Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP) is holding their first annual conference at the Rider University Nor...

The actual quote, which I have used before in posts, is "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." See Ge...

Several years ago in a previous post, I made the observation that genealogy is not a competition sport. At the time, the comment was mad...

For some time now, there have been studies correlating a decline in text-editing capabilities with an age-related learning difficulty. Qu...

Large libraries, such as the Harold B. Lee Library (the Lee Library) at the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, share the same cha...