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Last Chance to Enter to Win a 12 Month World Subscription to FindMyPast.com!!

This giveaway has ended. Thank you to everyone who entered, and to Findmypast.com for donating the generous prize. The winner, drawn randomly from all comments, is Barbara L. Congrats!! Barbara, you will be contacted by email very soon with instructions for obtaining your subscription! We’re excited to announce that Family History Daily has teamed up with the …

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App from New Historian is a Fun Way to Get Your History Fix

If you like staying up to date on history news, you’ll probably love the new app from New Historian. We checked it out today and found that they had some really fascinating topics, including several recent articles that would likely be of interest to family historians. Here’s some information they’ve shared with Family History Daily: …

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Dear Diary…Don’t Divulge Those Secrets Too Fast!

Ah, the diary! An empty book just waiting for you to confess all your fears, dreams, secret loathings and lovers! At least that’s what I thought when I started keeping a diary at age 10. It had a lock and key just to make sure all my secrets were safe. But in reality, I had …

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Family Tree Template Finder: Free Printable Charts for Genealogy

Looking for a family tree template for your genealogy research, class project or to frame as a gift? We’ve done our research and come up with some free printable and interactive family tree templates that are perfect for just about any need. From interactive pedigree charts to simple trees designed to be filled in by …

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4 Free Genealogy and History Sites You May Have Missed

Fantastic free sites for genealogists and history buffs are popping up every day. Here are a few of our recent favorites that you may have missed. Have other cool new family history sites to recommend? Share them in the comments! StoryWorth This new website dedicated to helping anyone record their family stories was mentioned in …

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LitvakSIG is Participating in the 33rd Annual IAJGS Conference

Thank you to Eden Joachim, President of LitvakSIG, for this announcement. LitvakSIG is the Special Interest Group (SIG) devoted to Lithuanian (Litvak) – Jewish genealogy, heritage and family history. Our website is www.litvaksig.org. Our All Lithuania Database (ALD) containing 1.2 million records is freely searchable, as is our Shtetl Database. Our website has hundreds of pages of information …

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Ancestry for Free: Genealogy Research Sites That Don’t Cost a Dime

Can you really research your ancestry for free? Yes you can! Most seasoned genealogists know that there are an ever growing number of free family history resources online–but it is easy for beginners to get overwhelmed trying to find quality resources and end up turning to just one or two large paid sites, like Ancestry, …

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How Wildcard Searches Can Uncover Ancestors

Thank you to Bob Vornlocker for this guest post. A recent German Genealogy Group experience with creating an on-line index for the records of Most Holy Trinity Church in New York, in its early days a German parish, has prompted me to write this update to an article originally published by the GGG and Dick Eastman, …

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A One-Name Study of the Surname Featherstone

Thank you to W Paul Featherstone for sharing his one-name study. It began back in 1995 when I was given my Featherstone lineage back to the 1500s by another researcher, also a Featherstone, who had studied and produced around 20 odd trees just involving North and East Yorkshire. Her sources list now contains 67 pages …

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Appreciating Our Ancestor’s Education & Controlling an eBay Habit

Photo Caption: Jodi’s recent class photo purchases (stop her before she buys again!) I have a problem. That’s the first step to recovery right? I am addicted to purchasing old class photos. To help myself I have given up eBay for Lent (I can hear the share price dropping as I type this.) This picture …

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