I may live, and work in the state of Utah, and most likely will for the rest of my life - but “home” would be Western Washington. Having lived in the drizzle for 40 years, one never gets used to living in a dry place… I’m not complaining, mind you… It’s just that Washington State [...]

Ronald John Bernier died 8 September 2008 as a result of long-term illness and depression. He was born 6 January 1959 in Putnam, CT to Armand and Evelyn Doris (Ouellette) Bernier. He grew up in Plainfield and graduated from Plainfield High School in 1977. Ron attended American University in Washington, DC, studying History, and also [...]

Holly Hanson reports that my friend, Art Lassagne, died of lung cancer yesterday. Art was one of those guys who I could ALWAYS count on for a hug at the various genealogy conferences we attended. He operated a business called The Gold Bug. I began selling his paper maps nearly 20 years ago - and [...]

The following was written by FindMyPast.com staff: September 25, 2008: Findmypast.com today announced that the county of London, comprising over 4.6 million records has been added to its new online version of the 1901 census for England and Wales. The new records join the counties of Surrey, Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, which are already available to search [...]

On September 18, while my blog was down, the Circuit Court of Cook County announced that the Declarations of Intent (1906-1929) indexed database will now be online. It seems that a hacker got into the site the night before it was to launch, so it didn’t happen quite when expected, but it’s now [...]

About a month ago, at the FGS conference in Philadelphia, Dick Eastman conducted an interview with me for Roots Television. Megan Smolenyak emailed this afternoon informing me that the interview has now been posted. To check out the interview, click here.

DNA and genealogy research can often solve mysteries. However, with all the research that’s gone into the case of Boulder Jane Doe, we still don’t know who she is… The remains of a woman whose mysterious death in 1954 generated headlines across Colorado have been reburied more than four years after she was exhumed in an [...]

Near the end of August, I lost my blog… And I’ve not known what to do with myself ever since then. I’m addicted to this thing. We still don’t really know what happened, other than Joe Edmon and I lost access to it. GenealogyBlog was setting on a server in Texas somewhere, and Joe couldn’t get [...]

Janice Schultz, Conference Chair for the 2009 Missouri State Genealogical Society Conference, recently posted their call for papers. Following is a copy: The Missouri State Genealogical Association is calling for lecture proposals in preparation for its 2009 Annual Conference, August 7-8, 2009, to be held at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City, Missouri. Lectures [...]

It was announced this last weekend that Ancestry has posted Civil Registration Records for the Piemonte Region of Italy, 1870-1937. These records can be accessed at Ancestry.com, if the subscriber has a World Deluxe subscription. In checking them out, I found that many records start in 1866. I even located Viganella birth and deaths records [...]

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Historical Society expects to gather its half-million documents, 20,000 photographs and 20,000 artifacts under one roof after it opens a $2 million, 8,000-square-foot expansion of the research center in October 2010. Friday’s announcement of the project will be followed in about a week with reports of major private donations, and [...]

Miriam, at the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society’s blog, is reporting that the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society is sponsoring the 2009 Washington State Genealogical Society’s State Conference at the historic Davenport Hotel on September 11 to 13, 2009. The featured speaker will be Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak. The four-diamond Davenport Hotel will be the venue for the [...]

The Baden Map Guide is back in print in a new Second Edition! This Grandduchy of Baden - Map Guide to German Parish Registers volume contains detailed information about where to locate the church and parish records where the town residents went to church in Baden. Additional information is also included about other religions that might [...]

The New York Irish History Roundtable (http://www.irishnyhistory.org) will present the only New York City area appearance of two internationally-acclaimed experts on genealogical research in Ireland—Dr. William Roulston, Research Director of Ulster Historical Foundation in Belfast, and Dr. Brian Trainor, the Foundation’s retired Research Director and the former Director of the Public Records Office of Northern [...]

The Indiana Genealogical Society has now joined a growing number of other societies that have online data available to their members. Access is a member benefit. Following is the announcement that I received this morning. A list of the databases, with links to the FREE data, follows the announcement. The Indiana Genealogical Society (http://www.indgensoc.org) recently added [...]