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FamilySearch Full-Text Search Goes Multilingual: Time to Revisit Those “Impossible” Collections
FamilySearch Full-Text Search Goes Multilingual: Time to Revisit Those “Impossible” Collections FamilySearch Full-Text Search: Remember that Polish parish register you gave up on three years ago? Or the Portuguese probate records you could only browse page by agonizing page? Good news: FamilySearch is dramatically expanding its Full-Text Search capabilities in 2026, and those collections you abandoned…
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Are You Really Getting Everything Out of FamilySearch? Take the “Honesty Test” Before You Search Again
Are You Really Getting Everything Out of FamilySearch? Take the “Honesty Test” Before You Search Again Are You Really Getting Everything Out of FamilySearch?: We all love FamilySearch. It is one of the pillars of modern genealogy—a massive, free, and indispensable resource for family historians, LDS church members, and researchers worldwide. But here is the…
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FamilySearch Guide for Christmas: Ultimate Guide to Mastering FamilySearch
FamilySearch Guide for Christmas: Ultimate Guide to Mastering FamilySearch FamilySearch Guide for Christmas: If you’re a genealogist, you already know what you want for Christmas this year: Not another sweater. Not another random gadget. You want time back in your research… and a way to finally crack those FamilySearch brick walls. That’s exactly what Dana Ann…
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Reconstructing the Lost 1890 Census: Recent Records and AI Tools (2025 Updates)
Reconstructing the Lost 1890 Census: Recent Records and AI Tools (2025 Updates) Reconstructing the Lost 1890 Census: Newly Digitized 1890 Census Substitute Records (Since mid-2025) A surviving page from New York City’s 1890 Police Census, listing residents by address with names, sex, and ages – a valuable surrogate for the lost 1890 US Federal Census…
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Veterans Day: Honoring Service and Tracing Family History through Military Records
Veterans Day: Honoring Service and Tracing Family History through Military Records Veterans Day: Americans celebrate Veterans Day each year on November 11 to honor all men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. This reverent day began as Armistice Day in 1919, commemorating the ceasefire that ended World War I on November 11,…
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FamilySearch Full-Text Search: A Genealogy Game Changer
FamilySearch Full-Text Search: A Genealogy Game Changer Genealogists, get ready to rediscover records you thought you knew. FamilySearch has introduced a new Full-Text Search experiment (via FamilySearch Labs) that is often described as a “game changer” in genealogy research[1][2]. This innovative tool uses artificial intelligence to read every name and every word in selected historical…
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FamilyTreeDNA Summer Sale 2026 Is the Deadline You Actually Need
FamilyTreeDNA Summer Sale 2026 runs through August 31, 2026. Save on Y-DNA, mtDNA, and Family Finder bundles before holiday gatherings arrive.
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Woodstock Music Festival: Interviewing Boomer Relatives: Questions That Actually Work
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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Kindle Rewards Points August 13: 50 Years of Left-Handers Day Meets Kindle Rewards!
Kindle Rewards Points August 13: One day only earn 2x Kindle Rewards Points. Celebrate 50 years of Left-Handers Day and build your genealogy library while it lasts.