In the course of their genealogy research, many Americans will eventually come across an ancestor who served in the Civil War. The 1861 - 1865 battle between North and South left nearly half a million soldiers dead, and just as many wounded. Millions more wore the blue or the gray. Read more »

A fast-growing online genealogy database website continues to bring in some important historical records. WorldVitalRecords.com has announced it has received more than 10 million records from the National Archives and Records Administration.

The Provo, Utah-based website announced on Friday its receipt of Read more »

One of the most important online research tools for genealogists is searchable newspaper records. And now, the Library of Congress has debuted a new database of newspapers from the 1900 to 1910 time frame.

The release of “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers” Read more »

Genealogy researchers who are looking to get their ancestor’s names into an online database, or to look and see if they’re already in one, have a new option with the debut of noktree.com

The Everett, Washington-based website has officially released its community-driven website with the following features: Read more »

Ancestry.ca, the largest Canadian family history website, announced a partnership March 14th with the Universite de Montreal to index the complete Drouin Collection, long considered by the genealogical community to be the best resource for French-Canadian family history records. Read more »

Back in 1999, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invited family history enthusiasts to contribute their family trees to the Pedigree Resource File (PRF), a database housed on the Church’s FamilySearch Web site. Since then the file has grown steadily, and the Church announced this week that it has passed the 150-million-name mark, making it one of the largest free databases online. Read more »

The LDS Church is shedding some new light on its long-popular familysearch.org online genealogy database. It seems that the conversion of its massive vault of microfilmed records is going so well, much of the collection may be readily accessible in as little as 10 years. Also this month, the LDS church announced that another of its databases (Pedigree Resource File) has grown to contain 150 million names. Read more »

A major genealogy database website has integrated its search results with Google Books. WorldVitalRecords.com’s addition of the fast-growing Google library project allows researchers to search millions of out of print books from libraries around the world to find valuable information about family members.

“We feel fortunate to be able to use Google’s technology and their investment in book Read more »

Online genealogy database websites continue to debut over the internet. One of the latest we’ve found is Footnote.com, which boasts of having “millions of images of original source documents, many of which have never been available online before.” Read more »

Burke’s has long been a name associated with heraldy. Before the internet came on the scene, the only way to find its resources was to visit a large library that had copies of its many volumes. But now, researchers can literally tap into this valuable data with a few strokes of the keyboard. The Burke’s Peerage Online database includes detailed genealogical information on over 15,000 families (some going back over 1,000 years) whose members shaped the history and evolution of Britain and Ireland and North America. Over one million family members are included. Read more »