Genealogy

Legacy Family Tree update available (7.0.0.55)

Just before we left on our Legacy Genealogy Cruise, we issued an update for Legacy. After recovering from the great time we had, we're now able to write a little about what's new in this update. Version 7.0.0.55 adds some...

Legacy Cruise 2008 - An Enormous Success

Our Legacy Genealogy Cruise to the Baltic Capitals has sadly concluded. :) I must say it was one of our most successful genealogy cruises ever. Nearly 200 Legacy cruisers from all over the world attended, and for most, it was...

Genealogy Query - DRYDEN : MELLON

Hi, my name is LaVonne Marsden, I've been trying to research the Dryden name. My grandmother Agnes Dryden, born in Scotland, aug 1,1902 (?),was the oldest of 4 children. Her father James and mother Mary Patricia Mellon, came to...

MormonTimes.com: Web-based innovations cranking up genealogy research

New innovations in doing genealogy research over the Internet are just around the corner, Web entrepreneur Paul Allen said.

Facebook does wonders for genealogy

I wrote about it here. I have just found a pix of my 2nd degree cousins that I have not seen in about 20 years or more. The young lady on the left was about 2 years old last time...

CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

During the course of his travels in the former Soviet Union, French photographer Frederic Chaubin documented an extensive collection of startling architectural artifacts built during the last two decades of the Cold War. The exhibition is a compendium of film stills, drawings, magazine articles, and historical timelines that maps out the complex genealogy of this overlooked but compelling chapter in the history of 20th century design. These monumental buildings are dramatic and exciting in - Con...

nyt_books: Genealogy Records Are Given to Library http://tinyurl.com/5va9xr

nyt_books: Genealogy Records Are Given to Library http://tinyurl.com/5va9xr

Ancestry.com now available!

Great news for historians and genealogists! The Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore College libraries have joined Haverford in subscribing to Ancestry.com, Library Edition. Search U.S. Census records from 1790 through 1930, by name! View immigration records, passenger lists, WW II draft registration cards, public records directories, photos and maps, and much more. It's a real treasure. For more ways to do "people research" please consult these library research guides: Biographies Genealogy For help with s...

Save an Extra 10% off Store-Wide at National Geographic Online

Save an extra 10% off Gifts, Books, Software and More Store-Wide at National Geographic Online. Use this additional discount on travel tools, guide books, coffee table books, videos, science tools, clothing, maps, and home items. Bonus discount appears on the shopping cart page once you've added an item to your cart. Magazine subscriptions, genealogy software, and gift cards are excluded, but most everything else in the store is eligible for the savings. Discount available on purchases through J...

Announcing the Winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge

Back in May, we kicked off the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. After hundreds of submissions over the course of a month, the contest came to a close a few weeks ago. Our all-star judges picked their favorite apps and today we're announcing the five winners: Innovative Structured Data - The StumbleUpon team won this category for an Infobar they built that draws in ratings and tags as well as links to other users who like the page. Best Infobar - The team from BooRah, a restaurant review site, t...