The late Richard Horsley, former owner of Pioneer Book in downtown Provo, always dreamt of returning his personal family history library back into the hands of living descendants. The Harold B. Lee ...

PEQUOT LAKES, Minn. — In 1990, a man named Jay Eric Nelson, of Altamonte Springs, Florida, compiled a more than 100-page book tracing his family history back to 1859, when the family's ancestor, named ...

Nov. 1 (UPI) --A family history book found by the owners of a Minnesota thrift store was returned to the family thanks to the detective work of a stranger. Kim Firkus said she and her husband, Dana, ...

Google. It’s a noun when we refer to the Google Search engine. It is also a verb when seeking information, but are we limiting our use of how we use Google for genealogy? You might be missing out on ...

Kevin Groenhagen's recently published “Groenhagen Family History” commemorates the 150th anniversary of Harm Siebelts Groenhagen’s arrival in the United States in 1870. He was the author’s second ...

THOMASVILLE — After 14 years of gathering and compiling information and eventually arranging it in four thick volumes, Jean Delaney Hadley’s family history book has reached its final resting place.

In our search for bounty land grants, we often focus our investigation on the grants awarded by the separate states or the federal government to American soldiers, forgetting that many bounty land ...

In early America, local governments, the courts and the clergy collected vital data like births, marriages and deaths. But these records weren’t the only tools people used to track their family ...