Genealogy

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Genealogy, the study of family lineage.


	Genealogists search written records, collect oral histories and preserve family stories to discover ancestors and living relatives. Genealogists also attempt to understand not just where and when people lived but also their lifestyle, biography, and motivations.


	Individual genetic test results are being collected in various databases to match people descended from a relatively recent common ancestor, for example see Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation. These tests identify either the male or female line.


	This group is one of many examples of researchers working on unrelated projects volunteering their time to other individuals on request.

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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Yahoo! News Search Results for Genealogy

05/21/2008 12:41 AM

New database aids genealogy research (The Republican)

What's happening? With the coming of the good weather, our attendance level at the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum has dropped somewhat, so I have had an opportunity to update my 1880 database of Springfield.

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.

05/21/2008 01:54 PM

Showing her roots (The Carrollton Leader)

The Perry name is well-known in both Carrollton and throughout the state. Governor Rick Perry once told 84-year-old Carrollton resident Mary Thompson they are probably cousins because he traced his genealogy back to the same state as her, Virginia.

05/19/2008 04:27 PM

Genealogy (Immigration Portal)

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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.

05/21/2008 03:02 PM

Ancestry.com partners with National Archives (The Washington Examiner)

Those interested in finding out whether their great-great-great grandfather was a German farmer or an Austrian shoe cobbler may have an easier time doing so, thanks to a new partnership between Ancestry.com and the National Archives.

05/20/2008 05:38 PM

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.

05/21/2008 03:54 PM

Language: The language barrier (Nature)

Some researchers think that the evolution of languages can be understood by treating them like genomes #20; but many linguists don't want to hear about it. Emma Marris reports.