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National Matchmaker Day is August 31. Use F.A.N. Club, cluster, and collateral research to discover how your ancestors actually met.

National Bowling Day (Aug. 8) is a genealogy goldmine. Learn how league records and newspaper box scores reveal your ancestor’s F.A.N. Club.

National Best Friends Day is also about discovering how the FAN Club methodology—Friends, Associates, and Neighbors—can help you break through genealogy brick walls.

National Stepfamily Day 2025: Why Stepfamilies Matter in Genealogy National Stepfamily Day is September 16, 2025 – a day founded in 1997 by Christy Tusing-Borgeld to recognize the millions of blended families across America. For genealogists, this is a perfect reminder to celebrate and research the step-parents, stepchildren, and other “bonus” relatives in our family…

Irish Famine Begins: The September 9, 1845 blight date is more anniversary than fact. Here is how to use DNA match clusters and Griffith’s Valuation to find your Irish townland.

Star Trek Day turns 60. Learn how to keep a genealogy research log like a captain’s log, including why the searches that found nothing matter most.

Live Long and Prosper: Kindle Rewards 2x points lands on Star Trek Day, Mon-Tues, Sept 7-8, 2026. Stack your genealogy Kindle wish list and beam your points balance somewhere new.
