Genealogy News

TO mark the centenary of Australia's involvement in World War 1, Monaro Regional Librar-ies and local family history volunteers will hold a special photographic exhibition at Bombala Library during Family History Month in August.

What he found buried under the sand that April afternoon opened a gateway to an experience lived more than 70 years ago from 6,000 miles away, in a place he had never heard of called Whitefish Bay.

I am searching for any information about, birth mother, Father, or Siblings only information I have currently is about birth mother.

Sensitive information about living individuals, such as birth dates and maiden names, was available on Irishgenealogy.ie site until last week.

The site may have only launched its civil records search facility on July 3, but it was shut down on Friday over fears that people's personal data could be exploited.

President Henry B. Eyring, first Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stands outside the Salt Lake Temple.

An inveterate historian, author and former resident of the Upper Rogue, Barbara Hegne had long heard stories of her black, slave ancestors who interbred with their white plantation masters in North Carolina, were freed and migrated across to country to farm around Butte Falls.

Larry O'Hara, left, from Waterford with his World War 1 medals that were returned to him by collector Gordon Power from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny.

A day camp is underway at the local genealogy museum. These day campers are learning about the past, specifically their own ancestors.

I am looking for birth parent Dorothy Ann Rogers. Dorothy would be about 77 now, perhaps with another surname if married.

It's easy to confuse them with services that sell generic information about last names and even coats of arms with dubious scholarship.

From laconic, wise-cracking slackers like Stephen Malkmus and Bethany Cosentino to starry-eyed romantics like Stuart Murdoch and Tracyanne Campbell, the history of left-field, literate indie pop is littered with idiosyncratic, effortlessly charming vocalists.

A rich tapestry of cultural events will be unfurled at Portlaoise Library this summer, as part of Heritage Week 2014.

July 26: Free Western Heritage Symposium at the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum, 3400 Mount Vernon Ave., Fort Worth, 76103.

Ask just about anyone, and they'll be able to tell about someone who influenced or inspired them - and often that person was a teacher.

Searching for birth family of male adoptee born 4/21/1947 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.

Our fiscal year runs July 1 through June 30 each year. To make the accounting and bookkeeping easier, we try not to purchase new materials for the last two weeks of June, which makes for slim pickings for a few weeks.

Whether it's football, bowls, cage fighting, fencing, tennis, fishing, golf, wrestling, darts, snooker, cricket, boxing, or anything else, we want to hear what the residents of Hinckley Bosworth have been playing at Resin - made up of Sime, James, Chez, Sev and Danny - will be performing at the renowned Bloodstock festival in August as well as ... (more)

It's been a year and a half in the making, but it's finally here - a book called "First Families of Putnam County, Tennessee."

This course, offered at the Palermo Library, will feature handouts and family forms with instructions and a high degree of hands on experience.