PREMIERE
“FIND MY FAMILY,” A HEARTWARMING NEW SERIES THAT
BRINGS FAMILIES TOGETHER, PREMIERES MONDAY, NOV. 23
From the producer of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” comes the highly anticipated “Find My Family,” a program with one simple mission — to bring families back together. With the help of a dedicated team of researchers, hosts Tim Green and Lisa Joyner [...]

In our continuing efforts to improve our service, Genline will be releasing a new version of the Genline FamilyFinder for Windows (GFF) on Wednesday, May 13th at 4 AM Eastern Standard Time.
GFF 2.5 will automatically update to GFF 3.0 when you start the GFF program the first time after the update. The update may take [...]

SALT LAKE CITY—FamilySearch announced today it has published millions of records from Southern states to its rapidly growing, free online collection. The collection includes both digital images and indexes. Millions of death records from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida were the most recent additions. Viewers can search the free collection on the Record Search [...]

NEW YORK, NY – The National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) will present the 23rd Annual Ellis Island Medals of Honor on Ellis Island, Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 6 p.m.  Veteran journalist Marvin Scott, the Senior Correspondent for the WPIX News At Ten and anchor/host of the weekly issues-oriented program, “PIX News Close [...]

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 [...]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett is developing a remake of the classic TV show “This Is Your Life.”
The show, which surprises celebrity guests with people from their past, launched as a radio program in 1948. It aired as a TV series on NBC from 1952-61, and then had a brief revival [...]

The UK National Archives officially launches its new reading rooms following a £4 million transformation to accommodate its family records service, setting a new standard for archives in a digital age.
Now The National Archives brings together all of its family history and historical assets into a one-stop-shop of online resources, with practical face-to-face support to [...]