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Rosa Parks Statue: Honoring an American Civil Rights Pioneer

Rosa Parks Statue: Honoring an American Civil Rights Pioneer was originally published at .When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus 58 years ago, her act of...

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Help Solve a Genealogy Mystery: Who Is Uncle L in My Old Photo?

Help Solve a Genealogy Mystery: Who Is Uncle L in My Old Photo? was originally published at .Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy...

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Sunday Blue Laws, Old Family Memories & U.S. Legislative History

Sunday Blue Laws, Old Family Memories & U.S. Legislative History was originally published at .Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy...

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N.H.’s Old Man of the Mountain Collapsed 10 Years Ago Today

N.H.’s Old Man of the Mountain Collapsed 10 Years Ago Today was originally published at .The “Old Man of the Mountain” was a granite rock formation in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that looked...

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Frakturs & Family Bibles Can Provide Proof of Marriage

Frakturs & Family Bibles Can Provide Proof of Marriage was originally published at .Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In...

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How the 5 Ws & FAV(orites) in Newspapers Can Help Genealogists

How the 5 Ws & FAV(orites) in Newspapers Can Help Genealogists was originally published at .Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy...

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Find the Oldest People to Ever Live, as Reported in Newspapers

Find the Oldest People to Ever Live, as Reported in Newspapers was originally published at .Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background....

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Researching Old Occupations in Your Family Tree with Newspapers

Researching Old Occupations in Your Family Tree with Newspapers was originally published at .Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy...

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Remembering Daniel Boone, Dr. Seuss & Paul Newman with Newspapers

Remembering Daniel Boone, Dr. Seuss & Paul Newman with Newspapers was originally published at .During this September week in American history three famous octogenarians died who had a big impact...

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Researching Your Pilgrim Ancestry from Mayflower Ship Passengers

Researching Your Pilgrim Ancestry from Mayflower Ship Passengers was originally published at .Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology...

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This just in – Viewer Mail

Hi Tom, I really do need to share with you GenealogyBank‘s latest contribution to my family history research! I really do love GenealogyBank. Without it, I would not know about the accident that caused...

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GenealogyBank – packed with veteran’s records

Today is Veteran’s Day – I have many ancestors and cousins that served – from the days of the Colonial militia, the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 right up to today. In fact my brother and I joined the...

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Best source for old newspapers online

GenealogyBank is the best source for early US newspapers on the planet. Last week I wrote about digging in GenealogyBank and finding articles about my early American ancestors in Maine. I had found...

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Genealogist, Mary Sue Green Smith (1933-2009)

Prominent Nashville, TN genealogist, Mary Sue Green Smith (1933-2009) has passed away. She was President of the Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society. She published eight books between 1994 and 2006;...

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Genealogy Boot Camp: Getting Started

OK Team – it’s time to get down to basics and make sure we haven’t missed clues and information that would help us to accurately document our family tree. Welcome to Genealogy Boot Camp: Core training...

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Tracing Famous ‘Mayflower’ Passenger Peregrine White’s Family Tree

Newspapers tell the story of the everyday lives of our ancestors. GenealogyBank is the best genealogy resource for online newspapers available anywhere, with a massive collection of content spanning...

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Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron: Baseball Superstar, Humanitarian—& Gentleman

As regular readers of this blog know, GenealogyBank’s historical newspaper archives are a great resource to research your family history and fill in details on your family tree. These newspapers are...

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How to Do Genealogical Research: Damon Family Case Study

Sometime during the next few weeks, as we continue to add new content to our online archives, GenealogyBank will reach a milestone: we will have 1 billion more records than the total we launched our...

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Amazing Survival Stories of Last Moments on the ‘Titanic’ Ship

This week, the world is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the British passenger liner RMS Titanic. The massive ship went down at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, after striking an...

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Researching Records for Solomon Titus: A Revolutionary War Veteran

With its large collections of newspapers, historical books and documents, and government records, GenealogyBank provides a wealth of genealogical resources to help you research your family history. One...

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