Old maps are an essential tool for discovering more about your family's history. If you have exhausted more...
3 Sources for Historic Maps that May Surprise You
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Find Your Ancestors in English Manorial Records
Was your ancestor the lord of an English manor or, more likely, someone who lived and worked in the...
Road Trip, Anyone? An Orphan Train Museum
We've heard from many of you that the best-selling novel Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, featured in our...
MyHeritage Shares Holocaust Survivor Story with Descendants
About a year ago, Greek-American family historian and Emmy award-winning writing, producer and author Yvette Manessis...
Heritage Cookbooks: Recipe for a Sweet Family History
Recently I heard from Jillian in Arkansas, USA, who wrote about "a recent - and accidental" family history discovery...
View-Master Toys are Going Virtual Reality
Did you have a View-Master toy as a kid? Using these stereoscopic viewers (long before kids had cameras of their own),...
Did your family follow the usual path? Mapping U.S. Migration Patterns
The U.S. has long been typified as a nation of restless wanderers. Are we still? Well, it depends on where in the U.S....
We Dig These Gems: New Genealogy Records Online
We learn about so many fantastic new genealogy records online every week. So each Friday we round up several of them...
Oldest Known Photographs of Cities: Did Your Ancestors Live Here Then?
London. Paris. Athens. Berlin. Bombay. Rome. New York City. Copenhagen. Dublin. Edinburgh. Jerusalem. The oldest known...
