family history

1 min read 2022-06-08 13:23:00

The life of Millie Miller – the first woman to lead a London council

Embed from Getty Images Camden’s first woman mayor and the first woman to lead the council was Millie Miller (1922-1977). Elected as a Labour

6 min read 2022-05-30 19:17:33

The story of Jessica Stanmeyer’s great-grandparents is straight from the movies: intrigue, secrets, murder, betrayal, forbidden romance — it’s

1 min read 2022-05-27 13:49:24

London Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society has published a series of parish guides with a list of the main records of each ancient

2 min read 2022-05-25 08:02:20

Jim Hobart photographs a subject of the Legacy Life Project which documents a family member’s history through their own words. (MACBETH STUDIO/JIM

4 min read 2022-05-12 17:15:00

“Tell me our family’s secrets,” my son said to me one night when I was putting him to sleep. I lay in his bed beside him with my eyes closed

1 min read 2022-05-03 14:28:33

This Mother’s Day, we are celebrating all the special matriarchs in your family tree. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we’d like

8 min read 2022-04-27 01:45:19

When the Catholic Galonski family made the brave and dangerous decision to protect a pair of Jewish refugees from the Nazis 80 years ago, they had no

8 min read 2022-04-27 01:45:19

When the Catholic Galonski family made the brave and dangerous decision to protect a pair of Jewish refugees from the Nazis 80 years ago, they had no

8 min read 2022-04-27 01:45:19

When the Catholic Galonski family made the brave and dangerous decision to protect a pair of Jewish refugees from the Nazis 80 years ago, they had no

4 min read 2022-04-18 12:05:01

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. As regular readers of this blog know, I’m a genealogy buff, so I was eagerly anticipating the April 1

2 min read 2022-04-12 18:13:33

MyHeritage is proud to share the third installment of the 1950 U.S. Census indexed records (and their corresponding images) from Alaska, New

4 min read 2022-04-08 22:30:16

I did something super cool and very brave on Friday, April 1st. I launched a membership! The Live Your Story membership is now just over one week

2 min read 2022-04-02 00:55:07

The moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived! We are delighted to announce that we have published an image-only collection of the 1950

2 min read 2022-04-02 00:55:07

The moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived! We are delighted to announce that we have published an image-only collection of the 1950

6 min read 2022-03-21 17:00:00

I didn’t touch alcohol—literally, not a drop—until a few months before I turned 21. From an early age, I’d known that my grandfather had been