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Millions of Civil War Records Now Available on FamilySearch Website s the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, history buffs and people who had ancestors involved in the conflict can access millions of records recently published on the familysearch.org website.

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Teen Makes Digital Record of Arlington Graves Using only a a clunky camera and the Motorola Xoom he got for his 17th birthday, Ricky Gilleland has has succeeded where the Army failed: He has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

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The Westchester County Potter's Field & The Eastview Cemetery Several years ago, I came across a record at the Find-A-Grave website that listed a William Yerks being buried at “Potter’s Field” in Valhalla. I wanted to find his burial place, but I didn't know where to start. Come with me as I show you how to find a lost place

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"Searching For..." Premieres February 14th at 9/8c Searching For... is a documentary series that follows the real-life work of Pam Slaton, a professional investigative genealogist, stay-at-home mom and New Jersey housewife.

Civil War, FamilySearch.org, Featured

Millions of Civil War Records Now Available on FamilySearch Website s the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, history buffs and people who had ancestors involved in the conflict can access millions of records recently published on the familysearch.org website.

Civil War, FamilySearch.org, Featured

Millions of Civil War Records Now Available on FamilySearch Website s the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, history buffs and people who had ancestors involved in the conflict can access millions of records recently published on the familysearch.org website.

FamilySearch.org, Featured, General Interest

The Westchester County Potter's Field & The Eastview Cemetery Several years ago, I came across a record at the Find-A-Grave website that listed a William Yerks being buried at “Potter’s Field” in Valhalla. I wanted to find his burial place, but I didn't know where to start. Come with me as I show you how to find a lost place

FamilySearch.org, Featured, General Interest

The Westchester County Potter's Field & The Eastview Cemetery Several years ago, I came across a record at the Find-A-Grave website that listed a William Yerks being buried at “Potter’s Field” in Valhalla. I wanted to find his burial place, but I didn't know where to start. Come with me as I show you how to find a lost place

Genealogy Insider Tips for Finding Female Ancestors March is Women’s History Month, so let's seize the opportunity to talk about finding women ancestors. Learning their maiden names can be a big problem, especially when you're researching before the era of consistent vital records. For me, birth and death records, when they're available, have been a source of maiden names. Carefully examining census records also has helped: In two cases, I've [...] 03/08/2012

Genealogy Insider This Friday on "Who Do You Think You Are?": Jerome Bettis Tomorrow night on "Who Do You Think You Are?" we'll see retired football player Jerome Bettis explore his roots. I'll be watching as part of our Virtual Conference viewing party (even though Bettis played for the Cincinnati Bengals rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers). In this video, Bettis visits the land where his enslaved third-great-grandfather lived and worked. [...] 03/08/2012

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Westminster Archives to Go Online at findmypast.co.uk The following announcement was written by findmypast.co.uk: Project announced to increase access to 10 million baptism, marriage, burial and parish chest records dating back to 1538 First time that images of the original parish records from Westminster will appear online Leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk has today announced that it has been awarded a digitisation contract by the C [...] 03/08/2012

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Apple's New iPad Apple has now unveiled its long-rumored new iPad. Strangely, Apple is not calling it the iPad3. Instead, it is simply “the new iPad.” The new device contains a lot of improvements over the previous iPad2 but I see little in the list that will provide direct benefit to genealogy uses. The new iPad should handle all the existing iPad genealogy applications in exactly the same manner as the older iPa [...] 03/08/2012