Genealogy News

Staten Island: As an avid genealogist, a former 35-year resident of Brooklyn and police officer there for 20 years, let me assure Spike Lee that his statement "you can't discover this.

You'll be surprised with the kind of information you'll unearth when you do a research on your own family name.

On March 15, the Georgia Salzburger Society will hold its annual Landing Day Meeting at historic Jerusalem Lutheran Church at Ebenezer.

Genealogy research includes census , online, library , society , archives , and people all working together.

This might be the coolest family connection ever -- Brad Pitt and Spike Lee ARE COUSINS ... 12th cousins sure ... BUT STILL!!! The people over at Geni.com just made the bizarre connection -- you can see in the diagram how Brad and Spike are connected 12 generations ago.

The March meeting of Newtown Genealogy Club will be at C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 pm.

The program will include how to begin research and deal with surnames and naming; a history and geography lesson dealing with Northern Ireland vs. the Republic of Ireland; church records; Griffith's Evaluation; Tithe books; census records; and more.

Staff photo by T.J. Lundeen Corey Rogers of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum, speaks about the Hornsby family during a Black History Month program at First Providence Baptist Church.

I like to think of ourselves as "seasoned citizens" who through all of our seasons in life, should be able to come up with some ideas to amuse ourselves.

"The beauty was in the rawness," Regina Carter says of the field recordings that inspired her new album, Southern Comfort .

A meeting of the Washington County Historical and Genealogical Society will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 15, 2014 in the Emergency Management Room at 28 Center Street, Machias.

Do you need help growing the branches of your family tree? In the new Billings Public Library, resources to unearth old family connections will be available in the Genealogy Room.

The Reference and User Services Association has selected the winners of the 2014 achievement awards, which provide research and travel grants in recognition of the nation's most exceptional librarians, libraries and projects involving reference services today.

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Terry Meyers Photo The Deming-Luna-Mimbres Museum is now open to the public from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday.

This photo was found by Cathy McLain of rural Decorah among the keepsake photos of George Harms.

The Franklin Parish Library has acquired property which will be used to house the genealogy collections and to serve as the Library's archives.

POSTING for my daughter-in-law searching for her sister. SEARCHING: Baby Girl born in Springfield, IL: DOB: 1978-82.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is offering online webinars designed for beginning and advanced historical and genealogical researchers.

"Genealogy of a House" will be presented at the March general meeting of the Sussex County Genealogical Society Saturday, March 15, at the Rehoboth Beach Public Library.