Mortality schedules were first created at the same time the 1850 federal Census was enumerated and consist of lists of people who had died between June 1849 and May 1950. Similarly, mortality ...

Patrons of the Riley County Genealogical Society now have access to a much larger pool of sources, thanks to the society’s new affiliation with FamilySearch.

Although Black History Month was last month, it is still appropriate to share the news of the FamilySearch Quick Guide to African-American Records that is available ...

A reader, who has a premium Ancestry.com subscription, recently asked me this: Is there any point in also searching for information on FamilySearch.org? Or can researchers assume Ancestry will give ...