Genealogy Network

The Genealogical Publishing Company in Baltimore has published another in its series of "Genealogy at a Glance" laminated research guides - this time for French Genealogy Research by Claire Bettag, CG, CGL.  This "Geneal [...]

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FindMyPast Ireland has released 1.2million records from the Irish Petty Sessions Order Books. They've never been online before, and mark the first tranche of a huge collection of records dating from 1850-1910. The remaining 15million records will be rel [...]

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Nearly all National Scout Associations throughout the world are celebrating Founder’s Day or World Thinking Day today in remembrance of Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement, and his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, founder of Girl Guide movem [...]

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A guest post by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, CG, MFA “Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait.”—Charles Dickens Uncertainty keeps a reader turning the pages. It’s the need to know what will happen next. This is what we call [...]

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John Denton fought for the Confederate Army, but deserted it. Then he joined the Union Army, but deserted it even faster. And that was just the beginning of his troubles. Denton volunteered for Company B (Monroe County, TN), 3rd Tennessee Regiment of Conf [...]

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The New York Times reports that Google is working to deliver a heads-up display allowing users access to email, maps and other tools through a wearable interface. You could do all this while at the library, reading census records, or even while playing on [...]

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This is a short note to let you know I will be offline and incommunicado for several hours starting later today. I am flying to London, England to attend the Who Do You Think You Are? Live! event being held this weekend. This is the largest genealogy conf [...]

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From the Irish Civil War to the American Revolution, and from the African nation of Cameroon to the Republic of Bulgaria, Season 3 of Who Do You Think You Are? sponsored by Ancestry.com take you all over the world and inside the fascinating family histori [...]

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People often sneer at suburbia these days. They assume it’s dull, conventional and stuffed with nosy old spinsters hiding behind their net curtains and privet hedges. They think it’s all identical little houses, pebble-dashed, semi-detached with point [...]

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Enter a name to search thousands of convict arrivals in New South Wales between 1788 and 1842. for more click here

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