Genealogy News

The Knox County Genealogy Society, forced to move out of its office in the County Service Center this summer to make way for the new 911 call center, finally has a new home.

The building is in the large imposing wooded hill which overlooks Torre railway station.

It took awhile but Chip Carter finally solved a mystery when he found the scattered remains of a headstone for Daniel L. Scully, one of Vallejo's first firemen to be killed in the line of duty on Jan. 25, 1884.

Family Tree DNA is releasing some significant updates to the company's web site that were requested during the recent 9th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy.

FORMER ST Cyres pupil Tanni Grey-Thompson was brought to tears after researching into her family tree as part of a BBC documentary.

A: What is this town's motto? Once planted, you stay? People are more mobile than they were.

Join Franklin, a professional genealogist and an exhibit researcher for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC, for a captivating event that will teach you how to find out more about your ancestors.

A recent article in The New York Times generated some buzz about this old-fashioned dessert.

In Uncovering records that link the slaveholder and enslaved , it was proven through the wills of Pettus Wales Chick that some tie or link existed between Pettus, Eliza Eigner, and Eliza's two eldest children, Anderson and Pettus.

James Sprunt Community College is one of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina, a system that is celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year.

The Scranton Public Library and Marywood University Library each received one of 19 grants awarded in Pennsylvania by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The name Bomboy can be traced to many families in Montour, Columbia and Northumberland counties.

There wasn't much left of the person in grave No. 10 - leg bones as fragile as ash, a well-worn tooth, a few milk-glass buttons from the burial clothing.

Horst Blaich of Bayswater, Victoria, Australia, has written five books on the Templer Society, a Christian community founded in Germany in 1861.

If nothing else, do not fall off the boat. It is easy to imagine that this was the unspoken first rule for the Pilgrims traveling to America on the Mayflower in 1620.

Join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut on Sunday, Dec.15, at 1:30 p.m. for an afternoon of personal research time at Godfrey Memorial Library, 134 Newfield St., Middletown .

Though many Douglas County residents are interested in genealogy, they may not be familiar with the Genealogical Society of Douglas County and its resources.

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After the Army drafted him and got him ready to work as a combat medic, Charles Allen Collins must have looked like a lot of the other 2.5 million troops who served in Vietnam: a lanky young man in a uniform.

Family Tree Magazine's list of Best State Websites for Genealogy for 2013 includes the Washington State Digital Archives and Washington State Library.