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 ...

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 ...

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You never know what you’re going to run into when you check out the latest list of additions to the massive free data base at familysearch.com. Close to home, FamilySearch is offering 469 digital ...

The FamilySearch.org full text search feature, now in their labs area, that became known to most of us only about a month ago, is proving to be a research gamechanger. I have heard from over a dozen ...

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 ...

FamilySearch announces that its pilot project continues to add names and data. About 1.2 million new images have been added to the Web site, bringing the total up to 43.6 million documents and records ...

FamilySearch has announced the completion of two new online projects and asks for volunteers to help them in a third. FamilySearch Record Services, the Georgia Archives, and the Georgia State Office ...

Sitting in Temple Square, the FamilySearch Library houses millions of genealogical records profiling more than three billion deceased people, making it the largest library of its kind in the world.

For those interested in exploring their family history without the hefty price tag of traditional genealogy services, the FamilySearch Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on ...

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Last week a couple visiting Idaho Falls from Tennessee was transported back in time nearly a millennium. No, they’d not cracked the secret of time travel. They’d made a stop at the Idaho Falls ...