Genealogists, do you know what language your ancestors spoke at home during their earliest years in America? There is a reason why I pose this question, as we shall see. Many immigrants, of course, ...

Two subjects make up this week's column -- a follow-up on a recent article and the other on the new upcoming publication of Journal 27 of the Jackson County Historical and Genealogical Society that ...

The handwriting is cramped, the entry in barely-legible Latin on the yellowing pages of a sacrament register for the year 1814: “15th Baptisavi Miriam filial Roberti Bankhead et Catherinae Magee natum ...

In 1891, George Bradshaw and Mary Manning got married at St. Mary’s Church in Waltham. Thanks to marriage records kept by the church, we can follow Mary’s journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to her new ...

The entire collection of Catholic parish register microfilms held by the National Library of Ireland – 400,000 films amounting to the most important source of Irish family history – is to be made ...

There’s no better place online to research your Irish family history than Findmypast, and central to this incredible resource are Irish parish records, the details of millions of live meticulously ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse City Area District Library has digitized over a century’s worth of marriage, birth, and death records from Immaculate Conception Church in Peshawbestown for genealogy ...

March 2016 marks a milestone for Irish genealogy. Ten million Irish Catholic parish register records spanning the years 1670 – 1900 are now fully indexed and searchable online and will be free to ...