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The holidays aren't complete without that special family recipe. Archives wants to celebrate your family's favorite holiday recipes. Between now and 12:00pm (PST) on December 21, 2012, enter the Archives Family Recipes Contest for a chance to win great prizes:

• 1st Prize: $300
• 2nd Prize: $200
• 3rd Prize: $100

First, second, and third prize winners will also receive an autographed copy of From the Family Kitchen: Discover Your Food Heritage and Preserve Favorite Recipes by Gena

I was speaking with a friend the other day about my observations of some of the people that I work with, explaining that for some people, there is a melancholy in their recollections of the past and where they are today. My friend told me how much she loved that word, ‘melancholy’ and how distinctly different it is from the current usage of the word ‘depression.’

I spent some time researching the word melancholy, it’s initial source from Aristotle and the Greeks who believed it was an imbalance o

 I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stuart Rosenblatt  for an upcoming "radio package" on the Irish Jews and their roots and I will shortly post a link to that interview.Stuart has spent the last 14 years painstakingly researching the family trees of the Irish Jewry and his Family History Database contains  information on over 48,000 individuals.If anyone needs information on their Jewish ancestry in Ireland then Stuart should be your first stop.Stuart can be contacted at the Irish Jewi

All I know is she was in the household of A.T. Loudermilk in the 1910 Census. She was 9 yrs. old and A. T. granddaughter. Was B: in West Virginia. Her grandmother was Rosanna f. Loudermilk. Any help would be appreacated. Can contact me here or at gabbygaila@yahoo.com.....

thank you for your time.  Gail

It's coming soon -- the deadline for the GENEii Family History Writers Contest is looming. Writers have until December 31, 2012, to submit their entries for this year's contest, which is sponsored by the Southern California Genealogical Society.

The rules and regulations for this year's contest can be found on the SCGS website.  Be sure to review the FAQs to get all the details.

Submissions from former years can be found on the SCGS website as well. Just click on the "GENEii Writing Contest"

MY GRANDMOTHER mtDNA haplogroup A2 PATERNA

MY GRANDMOTHER mtDNA haplogroup A2 PATERNA

Welcome to
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In human genetics, Haplogroup A is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
A haplogroup is believed to have originated in Asia about 60,000 years before present. Its ancestral haplogroup was Haplogroup N.
A haplogroup is found throughout modern Asia. Its A1 subgroup is found in northern and central Asia, while its subgroup A2 is found in Siberia and is also one of five haplogroups found n

(PROVO, Utah) – November 29, 2012 – Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced the launch of Newspapers.com, a powerful and affordable new web site designed to offer a historically rich collection of more than 800 U.S. newspapers dating from the late 1700s into the early 2000s.

Comprising more than 25

Family history network buys rival and advances international expansion with new funds

LOS ANGELES, California, PROVO, Utah & TEL AVIV, Israel – November 28, 2012 – MyHeritage, the popular online family history network, announced today it has acquired long-time rival Geni.com and closed a new USD$25M funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), with existing investors Index Ventures and Accel Partners also participating.  Geni.com Founder David Sacks and BVP Partner Adam Fisher are joini

November 27, 2012 – Austin, TX. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) is pleased to announce that the War of 1812 “Preserve the Pensions” Digitization Fund received a generous donation this week of $250,000 from FamilySearch, a nonprofit organization and world leader in the genealogy community. The donation helps move the Fund closer to its goal of $3.7 million in donations to digitally preserve and index the War of 1812 pensio

Hello everyone,I am researching Isaac Herzog,the first Chief Rabbi of the Irish Free State and I would be grateful if anyone has any info,thank you all.

ARLINGTON, VA, 18 NOVEMBER 2012: The National Genealogical Society has released the full 2013 Family History Conference Program. It is available online and is fully searchable at http://members.ngsgenealogy.org/Conferences/Program2013.cfm.

The theme of the thirty-fifth NGS Family History Conference is Building New Bridges, and it will be held 8–11 May 20

Franklin was born 26 June 1860 Greene Co. PA and died June  1940 in Wheatland , Wyoming was carried back by train to Iowa for burial next to his wife. Mom was expecting me and she could not go. It broke her heart. 

Franklin Cornelius Hoffman, son of Sanford and Rachel Plants Hoffman raised three children:

Robert, Grace and Cecil Leroy. Their mother was Samantha Abigail DuVall, also born in PA near Franklin.

Mom always called him Grandpa Frank.  The  man with the twinkle in his eyes and a humor to

This week marks the beginning of the holiday gift-giving season. Perhaps you are wondering what you might give to a fellow family history researcher or genealogist, or maybe your family and friends are asking you for hints.

Simple, practical gifts include a disposable camera to take to cemeteries, a package of photo paper, mini-cassette recorder for archive research or interviewing relatives, vinyl-coated paper clips, acid-free file folders and archival-safe, acid free and lignin-free storage mat

Latest Version of Genealogy and Family Tree Software Now Available to the Public

SPRINGVILLE, Utah. — November 19, 2012 — RootsMagic, Inc. today announced the official release of RootsMagic 6, the latest version of the award-winning genealogy software which makes researching, organizing, and sharing your family history easy and enjoyable. With this release comes an update to the popular “RootsMagic Essentials” free genealogy software.

Family History Made Easy

Family Tree Magazine said RootsM

I was just looking back over some old research and I came across a record of my grandfather from WWI.In the record it stated he had been charged with "leaving his post",this was while he was in hospital in England after been wounded in the Battle of the Somme.He was gone for 2 hrs,unfortunately it doesn't say where he went but my thoughts are he slipped out of the hospital for a pint! Anyone else with a similar funny story please let me know.

 

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Ancestry.com’s new Community Support site. This will be a place for community collaboration and will focus mainly on getting started with family history, product questions, How-To discussions and general help related topics. While the Ancestry Message Boards are for finding people and places – our new Support Communities is the place to go to get answers to product questions, and to find tips and solutions submitted by community members.

The Support Com

I was watching some news coverage of Hurricane Sandy a few days ago and there was a woman standing on the site of what was once her home, holding a battered and soggy wedding photo of her parents. She was sobbing, saying this was the only photo she could find of her parents. It was painful to watch. For years, I have been writing about the need to protect heirloom property such as photos and scrapbooks. I can’t recall where I read this but insurance companies report that the number one loss item

It always seems like there aren't enough hours in the day or enough days in the week, doesn't it? Take a look around you. Do you have piles of research laying around? Old books gathering dust? Historical documents sitting in boxes?

From now until the end of the year we will scan your documents, send you a digital copy, and put them online at Mocavo -- for FREE! We work with our community to bring all of the world’s genealogical information online for free putting everyone’s family history with