Last week, while listening to one of the many genealogy podcasts I subscribe to, I heard about an organization called “Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness” (RAOGK.org). I decided to investigate. RAOGK volunteers agree to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area as an act of kindness. RAOGK [...]

We need your Help!  The Sirius Genealogy People Finder is a Google Custom Search Engine that was set-up initailly as a personal search tool for myself. Earlier this year, I was getting tired of Google-ing names and getting results from movie stars, news events and other un-related content, so I built it for just me to [...]

I was looking to write about something in honor of Verteran’s Day when I stumbled across an interesting blog post at Kimberly’s Genealogy Blog (at about.com), written by Kimberly Powell.  As I was struggling with trying to figure out how to honor those in my family that served, the article presented an interesting challenge.  My goal now?  To go through the family tree [...]

Last week, Lisa Louise Cook of the Genealogy Gems Podast released a wonderful video in the premium section of her web site which explains how to create your own Google Gadget using a text editor tool provided by Google.
This got me thinking.  So I spent a few minutes reading about the Google Gadgets API and [...]

How do you store all those digitized photos, scanned documents, research notes and family tree data? As rich media (photos, video, movies, music) continues to devour your storage capacity of your local hard drive, you need a solution that allows you to easily manage, protect, and scale storage for your PC or Mac. As [...]

Today, I finally decided to spend some time checking out “Roots Television”. I must admit, my expectations were not very high. But with my very first click, I came across a video that not only helps me explain “Why Genealogy.. Why am I doing all this?”, but also reinforced the need on including [...]

Now, before we get started, a word about the title.  I am calling the new Google News Archives Search, a “Genealogists Dream” because of what I expect it to become… not for what it is today.  For today, it pretty darn good.  But if Google does what it has done with many other projects, it could become [...]

One of the largest collections of Irish records available is being released online by http://www.familyrelatives.com/. This forms part of a programme to add more than 10 million new records by the end of this year.
The new sources will contain, Indexes to Irish Wills 1536-1857 (5 Volumes), Irish Genealogical Guide, Quaker Records Dublin Abstracts of Wills, [...]

Ancestry.com has added a new feature to help you find what you need quickly and easily on the site. You can now install a new toolbar on either IE or Firefox browsers (sorry, Safari is not supported).
Primarily the Ancestry Toolbar lets you save photos and stories you find on the web to a person in [...]