Payton Manning and Clay Matthews come from famous football families. Learn about five of the most successful and famous NFL families and their family trees... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena shows how useful newspaper obituaries are for your family history research—and explains clues in obituaries that even some experienced genealogists might miss. Obituaries are the newspaper articles that most genealogists cut their research... (Read More)
For the first time, GenealogyBank has broken into the top 10 on a list of the Top 100 Genealogy Websites of 2014 from around the world, reaching the rank of #10. This annual best of genealogy websites list is produced by GenealogyInTime Magazine. The rankings are based on one important measurement: actual traffic flow,... (Read More)
An article about Town Line, New York – a northern town that seceded from the Union in 1861 – and did not come back to the United States until 1946... (Read More)
An article (with a complete title list) about the 27 Colonial newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
In this article, genealogist Mary Harrell-Sesniak presents 101 of the funniest or most touching genealogy sayings that she’s encountered in her career... (Read More)
Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy services. In this guest blog post—in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—Scott searches old newspapers to find out more about Dr. King’s family history—and includes a free MLK family tree download. The year was 1968. If you lived... (Read More)
Explore these humorous epitaphs of famous people as well as the every day Joe. Put your knowledge to the test with our epitaphs quiz!.. (Read More)
In this article, Scott Phillips searches old newspapers to find stories about the beginnings of the Super Bowl, this uniquely American sporting event... (Read More)
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