Newspaper research is one of the most important areas of interest for genealogists, and thanks to a pair of database-rich websites, this kind of research might be made a lot easier.

On Monday, newspaper record giant NewspaperARCHIVE.com announced its partnership with World Vital Records. The agreement Read more »

Photos of long-dead ancestors are some of the most cherished possessions of families around the world, especially genealogists. For many families, these heirlooms have been scattered across the country or around the world, and lost forever. Or, maybe not.

A number of collaborative websites have been around for several years that offer “found” and shared photos of named individuals, and even more Read more »

Two of the Internet’s better-known genealogy database websites are teaming up to offer free online access to more than 16 million grave records. Find A Grave and WorldVitalRecords.com announced their partnership on Friday.

While WorldVitalRecords.com has been building online databases for just over a year, the Find A Grave project dates back to 1995. Read more »

One of the fastest-growing database-rich genealogy websites, continues to enjoy increased popularity. WorldVitalRecords.com says Quantcast.com ranks it in the top 10,000 of the most popular sites on the entire Internet, number 9,100 to be exact.

The Provo, Utah-based WorldVitalRecords.com reports its number of unique visitors has increased more than 400% since January 2007. Read more »

The names of nearly one million British Army pensioners from World War One have made their debut online via Ancestry.co.uk, part of genealogy giant The Generations Network.

The completion of the British Army World War One Pension Records collection coincides with the 90th anniversary of the Read more »

Finding records of ancestors who suffered through the bonds of slavery can be especially challenging, but at least one online database offers an unbelieveable amount of information for enslaved people of African ancestry who once called Louisiana home, even before it was a state.

This incredible resource is a database that was 15 years in the making, and Read more »

Genealogy researchers may have a way of making some money from old documents they spent years gathering. Rather than let them collect dust, a relatively new website gives genealogists the option of sharing those documents with the world.

Next month, AncestryBank.com marks its one year online anniversary. It Read more »

Many family historians start their genealogy research with census records. Since they often know where ancestors lived in the most recently available census for 1930, they know where to start looking. In the not too distant past, that meant a trip to the nearest library with census microfilm and the page by page search for grandparents and other relatives.

These days, the ease with which one can now do census research, is Read more »

A new social networking website has something to offer family historians and online genealogy researchers. Eravita, Inc.’s StoryofMyLife.com gives users a place on the web to create what it calls a “multi-media personal life story” that will be stored “forever.”

The California-based company says it’s also established a separate non-profit called the Story of My Life Foundation, with the mission of keeping Read more »

One of the internet’s fastest-growing subscription-based genealogy websites is embarking on a major project. Utah-based Footnote.com has announced a partnership with Indiana’s genealogically notorious Allen County Public Library.

Footnote will digitize millions of historical records held by the largest public Read more »