The following announcement was written by The Generations Network, parent company of www.Ancestry.ca: Collection may provide family history clues for 4.3 million Canadians with Irish heritage (Toronto, ON – Mar. 10 2009) Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading family history website, has launched online t...

One of the fun things about publishing this newsletter is that I get to publish the words of several genealogy experts. Today I am delighted to announce the addition of another writer to the staff: Chris Pomery. Chris is an experienced genealogist but is best known for his expertise in DNA. In fact,...

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Chris Pomery. Time certainly flies. I find it hard to believe that genetic testing aimed at genealogists has been around for ten years. A decade ago DNA tests were rarely seen on TV and broadly unused outside of academia. Roll forwa...

The path to researching one's family history often used to hit a wall where the paper trail ended. Since the advent of the Internet, though, genealogists have had a virtual world of information available to them without traveling the globe. More recently, genetic testing has been made available ...

The following announcement was written by swissinfo.ch: BERN, Switzerland, March 10 -- swissinfo.ch is launching a multimedia networking platform for Italian-speaking Swiss emigrants and their descendants. People from around the world who have their roots in Ticino and the valleys of the southern Gr...

This is a follow-on to the RootsMagic version 4 announcement that I published last week at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/03/rootsmagic-invites-public-to-preview-family-tree-software.html. The following was written by RootsMagic, Inc.: We have just released an updated version of...

An interesting legal case has just been decided involving a copy of the Declaration of Independence made in 1776. A judge ruled that the copy, made by a public official and sent to public officials, is not a public record. In the summer of 1776, the state of Massachusetts had copies of the Declarati...

Walter Young can't find his great-grandmother's grave. The coal company that had it moved doesn't know where the remains ended up. "It always looked like a safe, good place nobody would bother," the 63-year-old retiree said of the cemetery along Pigeon Creek where his relative,...

I recently read a message on one of the online message boards that disturbed me a bit. Apparently this person is rather new to genealogy and was experiencing some frustrations.  He wrote, “I'm bummed though because I am not having any luck with Ancestry.com on finding any of my ancestors...

Family Tree Magazine is giving away a free e-book to those who sign up for the magazine's free, weekly e-mail newsletter. The book is the 42-page Best of the Photo Detective, a step-by-step guide that helps you examine old family photos for hidden clues to when they were taken and who’s in the...