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)

Photo: Look-alikes. Credit: https://depositphotos.com/home.html

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)

Photo: Happy Easter. Credit: https://depositphotos.com/home.html

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)

Photo: “Puck” magazine, 26 March 1902. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Happy Days: Our Ancestors Celebrating Spring and Easter (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on April 16, 2025

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about some of the many ways our ancestors celebrated springtime and Easter... (Read More)

Easter & Our Ancestors Through the Years (part 2)

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 15, 2025

Katie Rebecca Merkley continues her series exploring our ancestors and appearances of Easter in the newspaper, examining the period 1775-1783... (Read More)