Another Milestone for Genealogists!

Another milestone for genealogists!

This week GenealogyBank exceeded 1,000 newspapers in its America's Obituaries section climbing to over 26 Million obituaries from 1977 to the present from all 50 States.

GenealogyBank is updated daily. This is more than double what you'll find on competing sites. There are also over 2,300 Historical Newspapers with over 105 Million articles from all across the country.

It's been a great year for GenealogyBank - which has grown to 212 Million records and documents - four centuries of content. We are very pleased to help you remember and document every relative on your family tree.

Give it a try - and have a great holiday.

GenealogyBank adds 1.5 Million new items

GenealogyBank had another great month in November adding more than 1.5 Million records and documents. The Historical Newspapers section was expanded with additional content from 53 titles gathered from 30 States.

GenealogyBank now has 211,058,570 documents which is up from 209,556,376 last month.
Historical Newspapers (1690-1977) Over 3,700 titles; 104+ Million articles - updated monthly
America's Obituaries (1977-Current) 26+ Million Obits; over 900 newspapers - updated daily
Historical Books (1801-1900) More than 11,700 items – rare difficult to find items
Historical Documents (1759 - 1980) Over 127.600 reports; Now digitizing July 1930
SSDI (1937 to Current) Over 80.7+ Million death records. Only site to be updated weekly

Was your family tradition written up in the newspaper too?

Did you get the fruit cake yet?

Families have lot's of traditions - especially Christmas traditions. Often these get written up in stories that appear in local newspapers across the country.

Back in 1919 the Macon (GA) Telegraph reported on a Christmas family tradition that had been going for more than 50 years. In fact the Macon (GA) Telegraph repeatedly wrote about the annual tradition of the Crouch family of Virginia that had a 57 year tradition of giving a fruit cake - a 12 pound fruit cake - to the Holt family of Macon, Georgia.

A family tradition that started during the Civil War and was carried on as a way of remembering the kindness of a doctor and his wife for a wounded soldier during the war.

It began in 1862 when Charles Crouch, MD was treating wounded soldiers at his hospital in Petersburg, VA. A.T Holt was wounded near Gettysburg while serving with the 2nd Georgia Battalion, Floyd Rifles and taken to the Ladies' Hospital in Petersburg. The doctor moved Holt to his home where he and his family cared for him for two months. When he was ready he returned to his unit and to the war. The Crouch family kept in touch and every year they sent him a 12 pound fruit cake.

According to the articles that appeared annually in the Macon (GA) Telegraph after the doctor and his wife died, this tradition was carried on by their daughter Mattie Crouch and when A.T. Holt passed away she continued to send a fruit cake to Charles C. Holt, a son of A.T. Holt who was named for the good doctor.

Maybe your family's traditions were written up in the newspaper too!
Search GenealogyBank now and see.