Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

This CD is part of the Overseas Birth, Marriages and Deaths Records Series. It shows the Name, Rank, Service Number or Rating, Unit or Branch, Year of Death with reference to original document (where available). These records can help you trace what Unit or Branch your ancestors served in and provide you with their service number. They are provided in alphabetical order as greyscale and black and white images of the original GRO microfiche. for more click here

Many genealogists have spent long hours painstakingly retracing their ancestors’ steps to a particular county, only to discover that most of the records for the time period in which they are researching were lost in a courthouse fire, such as the one that struck Boone County’s courthouse in the 1880s.for more click here

Focus on a single country or county at a time and you can grow your family tree while learning more about your geographic history. for more click here

The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees. for more click here

Maybe Brad Pitt should play Sen. Barack Obama in the movies - after all, they’re ninth cousins.

Their mutual eighth great-grandfather, Edwin Hickman, 1690-1769, is responsible for starting the family line that begat Pitt and Obama - born just two years apart nearly 200 years later. for more click here

Irish Family History Society Directory. Links to the genealogy and family history societies of … Tithe Applotment Books of Ireland,1823-38 Land Records. for more click here

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The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia’s most valuable historical documents. Whether you love history, or simply want to know how we serve the citizens of Georgia, we invite you to explore our web site or visit us in the City of Morrow, located just south of Atlanta. for more click here

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Tim Sullivan, President and CEO of The Generations Network (TGN), parent company of the popular genealogy Web sites Ancestry.com, RootsWeb.com, MyFamily.com and Genealogy.com. Now that the recent majority buyout of TGN by Spectrum Equity Investors has been announced, he is happy to finally be able to speak freely with the media and the genealogy community regarding a wide variety of issues, both past and future. Some of the points I took away from our discussion include-for more click here

Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is a free genealogy and family history program. PAF allows you to quickly and easily collect, organize and share your family history and genealogy information. for more click here