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International Archives and the Research Breakthrough You’ve Been Waiting For There’s a moment every genealogist knows. You’ve traced your family back through American census records, naturalization papers, maybe even a ship manifest. And then you hit the ocean. The trail vanishes into an old country — a village in County Cork, a province in Galicia,…

International Archives Day is June 9 check out our genealogy guide to finding aids, NARA, state archives, church records, and ArchiveGrid. Start your search today.

Hiroshima 80th Anniversary: Archival Lessons from an Atomic Aftermath The Atomic Bomb’s Impact on Archives and Artifacts On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb used in war obliterated the city of Hiroshima. By the end of that year an estimated 140,000 people had been killed, and roughly 90% of Hiroshima’s buildings were incinerated or…

FamilyTreeDNA Summer Sale 2026 runs through August 31, 2026. Save on Y-DNA, mtDNA, and Family Finder bundles before holiday gatherings arrive.

Woodstock Music Festival: Interviewing Boomer Relatives: Questions That Actually Work I grew up in Liberty, New York, about ten miles from Bethel. In August 1969, I was six years old. Somewhere out there, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, half a million people were listening to Jimi Hendrix and sleeping in the mud, and I was…

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