Photo: chocolate bars in their most common dark, white, and milk varieties. Credit: Lynnereal; Wikimedia Commons.

My Ancestor and the Chocolate Factory

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 29, 2025

Katie Rebecca Merkley finds that newspapers help her understand the life of an ancestor who worked in a chocolate factory more than a century ago... (Read More)

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Do You Have a Look-alike? Find Your Doppelgänger (part 2)

By GenealogyBank on April 28, 2025

This article explores doppelgängers (look-alikes) further, including facial recognition technology and websites to find out your very own doppelgänger... (Read More)

Painting: “Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,” by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on April 24, 2025

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing again on the family lines of Hopkins descendant Kenneth Souder Snow Jr... (Read More)

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on April 23, 2025

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on the family lines of Hopkins descendant Kenneth Souder Snow Jr... (Read More)

Do You Have a Look-alike? Find Your Doppelgänger (part 1)

By GenealogyBank on April 22, 2025

This article explores doppelgängers (look-alikes), unravels the science behind it, and suggests practical ways to find out your very own doppelgänger... (Read More)

Photo: close-up of the cover of a 1945 school memory book. Credit: Gena Philibert-Ortega.

The Mystery of the ‘School Memory Book’

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on April 21, 2025

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega solves a genealogy mystery: identifying the owner of a 1945 school memory book she finds in an antique shop... (Read More)

Photo: close-up of Rev. Peter P. Cooney. Credit: Notre Dame Special Collection.

Easter Celebration: Remembering Father Cooney

By Melissa Berry on April 18, 2025

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Father Cooney celebrating Easter Mass on a Civil War battlefield during the Atlanta Campaign in 1864... (Read More)

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Easter & Our Ancestors Through the Years (part 3)

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 17, 2025

Katie Rebecca Merkley continues her series exploring mentions of Easter in the newspaper, examining the period during the Civil War, 1861-1865... (Read More)

Photo: the Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Dave Parker; Wikimedia Commons.

Iowa Archives: 468 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

By Tony Pettinato on April 17, 2025

An article (with a title list) about the 468 Iowa newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)