genealogy

5 min read 2022-06-09 08:00:35

Honors and Accolades – Thanks to You!

Before I share the good news, I’d like to thank you, my readers and followers – my tribe – for being my fans. For reading what I write and

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

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

4 min read 2022-06-02 17:45:58

Few living today have seen war between European nations, until the last few months. Russia President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is horrific.

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 2022-05-03 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

4 min read 2022-04-28 21:15:24

Contributed by Correspondence Archivist Alison Thurman and Records Analyst Josh Hager WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the last few episodes of Outlander

6 min read 2022-04-28 18:58:10

I have been meaning to post on the most eminent of Salem’s antiquarians, Henry FitzGilbert Waters (1833-1913) for a while, but I kept finding more

3 min read 2022-04-27 11:44:27

We were up early yesterday morning because we had an appointment for Wilkie’s Pest Control to come by and do their quarterly spraying. If you live

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 2022-04-13 20:03:00

Generally speaking, in the United States, the requirement to record vital records (I’m primarily referring to birth and death certificates here,

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

5 min read 2022-04-07 23:40:00

This will be my last blog post for the foreseeable future, and probably forever. This is not a matter of free time, or of advancing years, or even of

3 min read 2022-04-07 22:58:03

We are delighted to share that MyHeritage is now live with the first installment of indexed records (and their corresponding images) from the 1950

3 min read 2022-04-04 19:10:12

Q: I’ve read that the British don’t pronounce the “l” of Ralph because it was originally silent in Old English. Is that true? A: No, the

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