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Social distancing may be keeping you from getting out of the house, but it shouldn’t keep you from pursuing genealogical research! While you and your loved ones are at home helping to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, there…

What a difference three years can make! In the summer of 2016, I wrote a blog post about Algorithmia’s free online photo coloration tool and how it offered a really promising option to colorize black and white photos quickly and…

Did you miss your local genealogical society meeting this month? Our February Genealogy Club recording is available for you to watch for free, now through Thursday, March 12. This month’s meeting featured Family History Resources at the Library of Congress…

As many of you know, the library offers several scanners for patrons to use. The bullet scanners are perfect for standard 8.5″x11″ documents and the flatbeds will take care of almost everything else. However, if a patron has something brittle…

It’s time to mark your calendars, and register for Genealogy Day 2020! This year’s theme, All About FamilySearch, will be held on Saturday, March 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Genealogy Day is a free, day-long conference open to…

Next year marks the 75th commemoration of the end of World War II. As we move closer to this anniversary, I have been fielding more questions from patrons about researching World War II ancestors and what local resources are available….

Did you miss your local genealogical society meeting this month? Our November Genealogy Club recording is now available for you to watch for free, through Thursday, December 12. This month’s meeting features Using Newspapers.com with Jennifer Warner. Newspapers.com is a…

Just within the past two years, a vast amount of Great War era records have gone online and were made searchable to researchers. This was in no small part due to the need to have more items available to commemorate…

In 2001, Congress declared October as National Family History Month in the United States. It is a time to remember our roots and celebrate our family’s unique stories and history. If you’re an amateur genealogist looking to research your family…

I had a Genealogy Christmas Day last weekend, and it was glorious. For nineteen years, my parents have been hoarding a ton of older photographs from my grandmother’s estate in their basement. Everything was housed in plastic tubs, while not…