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 ...

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 ...

TEL AVIV, Israel & SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the popular online family history network, and FamilySearch.org announced today the signing and commencement of a strategic ...

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.

When it comes to online genealogy, the two major for-profit players are Ancestry.com and MyHeritage. Ancestry.com got a major head start over MyHeritage, but it mostly focused on gathering historical ...

Editor’s note: This story appeared in the October 2021 edition of The Daily Universe Magazine. Gone are the days of using antique family history techniques to fill out a family tree as new technology ...