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

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 44 (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on May 2, 2025

Melissa Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, featuring direct descendants of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley... (Read More)

Photo: the Kansas State Capitol, Topeka, Kansas. Credit: Nils Huenerfuerst; Wikimedia Commons.

Kansas Archives: 367 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

By Tony Pettinato on May 1, 2025

An article (with a complete title list) about the 367 Kansas newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on April 30, 2025

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her Mayflower descendants series, with more on the Snow family who descend from Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins... (Read More)

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)

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)