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.
Sale! RootsMagic version 10 is out with additional features, including tools for working with DNA matches. Click here for more.
May 18, 2025
By: Erin Renfroe
Reclaim the Records - New York
Reclaim The Records is supporting legislation, S.7782, that would direct the New York Department of Health to work with a private partner to finish digitizing the state's historical birth, marriage, and death records and put them online with searchable public indexes. Read more about it, and how you can support the efforts, here.
May 11, 2025
By: Erin Renfroe
The 1870 Double Census
Did you know that back in 1870, three major U.S. cities filled out the federal census TWICE? This article from NGS Monthly explains why, and how the two enumerations are different. Click here to read the article.
May 9, 2025
By: Erin Renfroe
Free WWII records at MyHeritage
From the Facebook page: In celebration of VE Day, MyHeritage is offering free access to all their WWII collections from May 7–11, 2025. They have more than 127 million records across 13 collections, covering enlistment, draft, casualty, and prisoner of war records from the U.S., Europe, Australia, and beyond.
