Happy Fall to all! The latest genealogy news is RootsMagic has released its newest version of family tree software for personal computers.RootsMagic 8RootsMagic has just released its newest version for Mac and Windows computers. I use RootsMagic as a...

Hope this email finds you well! It's marching band season for us so we're burning the midnight oil and it's pretty much all work and no play for me. But if you have time for family history research here are some great new collections headed your way!...

Best with your family history this weekend! As we approach the 20th anniverary of the 9/11 attacks, check out some of the stories of survivors and victims of the attacks at StoryCorps.com. Where were you on September 11, 2001?If you haven't yet recor...

Happy Friday and Labor Day weekend in the U.S. I hope you get some time off this weekend to do something fun! We're doing yardwork and gardening and watching the U.S. Open--happy to be homebodies right now. And we'll get together with some family...o...

Hope you're having a great week! I found some inspiration for family histories this week.For families with teenagersTeenager Pro Tips is a hilarious Facebook page where a guy posts satirical tips from a teenager's point of view. Here are a few exampl...

Hope you've had a great week and are looking forward to a productive weekend!One reason I love the family history industry is it teaches me ways to record and preserve my family history. Framing their MemoriesThe way we frame our memories can influen...

Hope you've had a great week!With the changes to Ancestry's Terms of Service (ToS), it sounds like, and I'm not a lawyer, Ancestry is creating indexes/derivative works from photos & documents uploaded by users and if a user removes photos from th...

Hope you've had a great week and your weekend includes some family history!Ancestry.comIf you have an Ancestry account be sure to read up on the changes to their terms of service. This is the paragraph that is raising eyebrows:"Also, by submitting Us...

Hope your week was great and your weekend will be even better!This has been a productive week for us but the next couple of weeks (summer family plans and the Tokyo Olympics on TV) will not be super-productive and it's nice to have a change from last...

Hope you're having a great summer!I'm still adding city diretories to the website and am finding more and more local libraries that are digitizing collections. It's pretty exciting to see the newest offerings at libraries around the United States. I'...