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July 13, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
Military honors for Civil War Vet
From the Facebook page: This is what genealogy can do!
July 6, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
23andMe Update
From the Facebook page: 23andMe and Regeneron jumped the gun announcing a deal. The bankruptcy judge allowed another round of bidding, and a nonprofit led by 23andMe's co-founder Anne Wojcicki had the high bid of $305 million. After listening to two days of testimony, the judge gave 23andMe Holding Co. approval to sell all its assets to said non-profit, TTAM. (Get it?)
June 29, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
Genealogy Activities for Kids
June 27, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
Preserving Burial Grounds webinar
From the Georgia Genealocial Society: Join The Georgia Genealogical Society, next month, THURSDAY, JULY 10th, at 8PM, for another FREE Educational Series Webinar.  We'll be exploring an intriguing theme, "PRESERVING BURIAL GROUNDS:  METHODS IN DOCUMENTING AND MAPPING CEMETERIES," with LaDonna Garner, a notable cemetery preservationist, historical researcher, and genealogist.  Our guest speaker will illuminate how cemetery surveying, —when done with care and purpose, becomes a powerful act of historical preservation. This will be a special presentation that’s sure to shift the way you see burial grounds.
 
Learn the hands-on techniques and proven methods to document neglected or endangered cemeteries, create lasting records, and map out forgotten sacred spaces before they disappear. Even if you’ve never conducted a survey before, you’ll leave this session with the tools, mindset, and motivation to ensure these silent sites speak for generations to come.
 
June 26, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
Learning with the National Archives
"Each spring, the National Archives hosts a series of genealogy lectures on a wide variety of topics.  We selected a few topics from 2025 and previous years that we know will be of interest to researchers and family historians." Enjoy their selection - which includes such topics as 1950 Enumeration District Maps, Passport Records, Alien Files, and Digitizing Challenging Materials - by clicking here.
June 22, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
A Civil War letter to Mobile
CivilWarRecords.com sharing a poignant letter mailed from Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865. It's a soldier's last missive home at the end of the Civil War. Click here to read: https://civilwarrecords.com/blogs/news/anaprilletter-6
June 15, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
Alabama Archives Digital Collection
From the Facebook page: If you had relatives on the Alabama side of the West Florida Territory, the Alabama Department of Archives and History has a growing digital collection. Click here to explore.
June 8, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
101 Best Genealogy Websites
FamilyTree Magazine has published its list of 101 Top Genealogy Websites. Have you visited them all?  Click here to explore.
June 1, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
Big Win for Genealogists: NY Death Index
Reclaim the Records has notched another big win for genealogists and freedom of information with the public release of the FULL New York State Death Index, from 1880 through the end of 2017. And as soon as they hand over the data, it will be published online, for free, in both searchable and downloadable formats, without any restrictions or usage contracts or paywalls, so that neither the state nor commercial entities can ever withhold it again.
May 25, 2025 By: Erin Renfroe
Pope Leo XIV's Family Tree
From the Facebook page: Genealogists climb the brick wall in the family tree of new Pope Leo XIV. Click here to read.