Genealogy

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Genealogy, the study of family lineage.
Even an unsuccessful search for ancestors leads to a better understanding of history. The search for living relatives often leads to family reunions, both of distant cousins and of disrupted families.
In the last century, the LDS Church engaged on a large scale program of copying all available records that would be useful for genealogy, microfilming them and constructing an index, the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
A very popular and useful way for genealogy amateurs to help each other is the creation of mailing lists. RootsWeb.com has hundreds of lists for different topics or regions.
 

Genealogists and family historians often join a Family History Society where novices can learn from more experienced researchers, and everyone benefits from shared knowledge. Even an unsuccessful search for ancestors leads to a better understanding of history. The search for living relatives often leads to family reunions, both of distant cousins and of disrupted families. Genealogists sometimes help reunite families separated by immigration, foster homes and adoption. The genealogist can help keep family traditions alive or reveal family secrets.
 

 TheInternational Genealogical Index (IGI) contains hundreds of millions of records of individuals who lived between 1500 and 1900, primarily in the United States, Canada and Europe. By making so many resources available, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has helped contribute to the increasing interest in genealogy over the last couple of decades. Information is available free or at a nominal cost through the internet, through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and worldwide at Family History Centers near local congregations.
 

 

 

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05/19/2008 05:30 AM
FdL Public Library receives genealogy collection (Fond du Lac Reporter)
The Fond du Lac Public Library will receive a 30-volume set of Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts for its genealogy collection.
05/19/2008 04:27 PM
Genealogy (Immigration Portal)
[Federal Register: May 15, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 95)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 28026-28032] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr15my08-3] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 8 CFR Parts 103 and 299 [CIS No. ...
05/17/2008 10:56 AM
Genealogy class today (Denton Record-Chronicle)
Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland St. in Denton, presents a beginning genealogy class at 10 a.m. today.
05/17/2008 05:25 AM
Around Town: Genetic genealogy (Merced Sun-Star)
Katherine Borges is a founder and director of the International Society of Genetic Genealogy and will present a crash course in genetic genealogy at 1 p.m. today at the Merced County Library Gracie Room. Public is invited.
05/16/2008 11:51 PM
Genealogy conference goes digital in KC (The Kansas City Star)
Patricia Border of Blue Grass, Iowa, was paging through old federal census records the other day. Border is a longtime genealogy buff, so that was nothing new. The difference was her location: the crowded lobby of the Hyatt Regency Crown Center hotel.
05/20/2008 07:33 AM
Online records reveal candidates' ancestors (USA Today)
Under an agreement being announced Tuesday, a vast range of records held by the National Archives will become more easily available online, offering information on some 100 million ancestors.
05/20/2008 01:32 AM
Records shed light on candidates' ancestors (AP via Yahoo! News)
They were a sailor, a bookkeeper and a factory worker, men of humble roots and distant times whose kin would run for president in 2008.
05/19/2008 07:17 AM
Family 'tree-shirts' on display in art exhibition (Blyth and Wansbeck Today)
A WORLD first genealogy showcase exhibit has opened to the public at Woodhorn museum with a gigantic family tree. (13/05/2008 14:40:23)
05/20/2008 02:27 PM
Village Vine: Rummage sale, Scandinavian fest await residents in Gurnee-area (Lake County Journals)
GCC annual rummage sale Don’t forget, the annual Gurnee Community Church Rummage Sale begins on Friday, April 25, from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. and continues on Saturday, April 16, from 8 a.m. to noon. Be sure to stop by and check out the many bargains to be found!
05/20/2008 12:38 PM
The Amazing Power of FamilySearch Indexing (About.com)
I spent some time indexing a set of about 160 names from the Philadelphia Marriage Index (1885-1916) yesterday through the all-volunteer FamilySearch Indexing project. This wasn't my first foray into...