Genealogy News

Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson was left shocked and stunned after learning his great-grandfather had been accused of murdering his aunt while tracing his family tree on U.S. genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are ? The Modern Family star recently taped his voyage of ancestral discovery for producer Lisa Kudrow's Tv series, and reveals he had no idea ... (more)

Willard Harris from Framingham, Mass. gets help from his Island cousin, Merry Carruthers and Alberton Museum manager Arlene Morrison, in researching his ancestry in the museum's new Eileen Oulton Genelogy Centre.

Minor T. Weisiger, Archives Research Services Coordinator for the Library of Virginia, shared his excitement about a series of programs concerning research at the Library of Virginia, particularly the upcoming Genealogy Workshop.

It soon grew into a passion and has become a way that Clunie makes a difference by preserving the records of area families for generations to come.

A family history researcher who documented the stories behind two Suffolk war memorials is preparing for a fundraising challenge in aid of the Army's national charity.

TOP MARKS: Social Sciences Fair president Lloyd Esler is impressed with the diorama of the Norwegian whaling base at Stewart Island made by Sophie Connor, year 6, from Halfmoon Bay School, who won the Heritage South section first prize for her effort.

CongrA s Mondial Acadien is an international cultural event that takes place every five years as more than 50,000 Francophones converge from around the world.

From her father's war records, Pam Valentine unraveled a family mystery that led her from western Sydney to Westminster.

July 28: General meeting of the Grapevine Historical Society, 7 p.m., Grapevine Public Library, 1201 Municipal Way, "History of the Grapevine Fire Department" by former Fire Chief Bill Powers and current Fire Chief Steve Bass and his successor Chief Darrell Brown.

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

Most of Vladimir Paley's clients want him to dig up their family history with one goal in mind: making a case to obtain foreign citizenship and leave Russia.

Today on behalf of the Magic City Morning Star team I would like to welcome our newest book reviewer, Laure McCourt Lopez.

Sunday morning and we're still at it . . . Here are some of the most important Kansas City mainstream media links and facts regarding Kansas City .

Kathleen was born on November 28, 1930, on the family farm near Blaisdell, the daughter of Louie and Constance Larson.

Historic Pamlico deed books, dating from the county's inception in 1872 and up to 1970, were endangered from hurricane damage before members of the Pamlico County Friends of the Library and Pamlico County Historical Association stepped up.

This photo is from the Alfreda Mueller Huck Collection at the Victoria Regional History Center.

SALT LAKE CITY I've written many times about "the Big House" in Utah, that genealogy mecca known as the Family History Library.

A census is defined as "an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals."

Fort Wayne resident, Karen Morris, writing as Kyra Jacobs, has released her second novel, "Flirting with Fire," a romantic suspense novel set in Fort Wayne, and the second in a multi-book series.

The acclaimed PBS Series "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." returns Tuesday, September 23 at 7 p.m. CST for its second season.