Genealogy Soup Blog For most people living in the US who are looking to trace their family history, most long lost relatives of recent years can be found in United States repositories.  However, what happens when you discover the country your ancestors originally immigrated from? Since the advent of the internet, there are quite a large amount of records available online but not all.  There are also massive amounts of information on microfilm for viewing at your local family history ce... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog Social Security Death Index When creating a genealogy, death records can be one of your biggest assets. Along with birth records and marriage records, death records can provide extremely valuable information about an individual ancestor as well as his family. When creating a family tree, designs and included information may vary from tree to tree. However, a family tree will always account for births, deaths and marriages. It is important to make sure that these ... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog Of all the emotional processes you go through when studying and researching your family tree it is the hunt for birth parents that is the most challenging. The locale privacy laws can make it a lot more complicated to find exact names and addresses depending on where you live. It may well be difficult simply to find out the locations connected with your adoption either from the adoption agency or your adoptive parents. If your birth mother or father don't want t... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog MyHeritage Press Release- Our latest addition made the MyHeritage Genealogy Search Engine more powerful, as we have expanded our database to include now 1,526 genealogically relevant databases, representing more than 12 billion names. You can get to it by going to http://www.myheritage.com/research or you can still access it directly from our software Family Tree Builder. We have expanded our database by 150+ new sources. Some of the new sources are: · Facebook · Di... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog - Courtesy Legacy News FamilySearch continues its massive record digitization projects. They have just added over 6 million new indexed records and 1.4 million new images to its Record Search pilot program. The West Virginia birth, marriage, and death records, and the South Dakota state censuses for 1915 and 1925 are now complete. Many thanks to the thousands of online FamilySearch Indexing volunteers who helped make these wonderful records available. See the char... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog The Canadian Genealogy Centre is an online resource for anyone in the world who wants to identify their Canadian ancestors and learn more about them. A variety of databases and records are available through the Canadian Genealogy Centre. This guide will help you navigate the site. What You Can Do The most popular activity on the Canadian Genealogy Centre is searching for ancestors. By using the Centre’s combined genealogical database search, you can search f... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog As the search for family history continues to become popular, many are finding keys to their family roots that may not have been previously understood. For example, for people living in Arkansas, genealogy may show that some of their ancestors aided General Sam Houston plan the war between Texas and Mexico in 1834. They might research their European roots further and discover they are tied to the area's first settler in the late 16th century, Hernando De Soto. ... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog For anyone who answers to the surname Cortes, the need to find out more about Cortes genealogy is sure to be great and it will involve learning where they came from that in turn can prove to be a very rewarding and fun experience, and once you learn how to uncover new leads, your search for Cortes genealogy will also not prove to be very difficult. The crux to it all is in finding out the best place where to begin the search for Cortes genealogy, and in this regard,... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog I found a really great post on New Year’s Resolutions for Genealogists that may help you get “back on track” if you are not sure of your direction for the new year. By Carllene Marek January 1st, 2009 If 2008 went by as quickly for you as it did for me, you didn’t have time to work on or complete many genealogical projects. Let’s hope 2009 will give each of us more time to spend on this fascinating hobby. At this time of year, thoughts turn to... Read Full Story

Genealogy Soup Blog Barcelona, Spain PRWEBNovember 17, 2008 — Family networking site, www.Genoom.com, makes social networking a truly global affair with support for 17 languages, including the latest addition of traditional and simplified Chinese. The social network caters to families interested in staying in touch with relatives near and far, sharing family trees and genealogical research, and more in a private and secure online environment. Genoom.com is a free family networkin... Read Full Story