7 February 2012
When your society has inhabited a small, remote island for countless generations and boasts a population of only 300,000, the odds of having sex with a relative are significant. Luckily, Icelanders now have a handy tool to avoid family-sex.2 February 2012
Acadian researchers at l'Université de Moncton have discovered a list of 289 names of Acadians who were living on Prince Edward Island in 1763, but they're still trying to reach a consensus about what exactly the rare list was for.31 January 2012
Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into the Arctic from Churchill, Manitoba.
Irish Americans continue to thrive, so the latest US census makes clear in their just released report.27 January 2012
Chemical Engineering student Emil Johansson has an amazing passion project he developed mapping out the genealogy of everybody in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Called the LOTR project, it provides a great big family tree for Tolkiendom. Its scope is amazing as is the effort and organization, although it is still a work in progress.25 January 2012
Missing details about the lives of these First World War heroes could hold the key to a woman’s family history. The old photograph was discovered by 89-year-old Elsie Kersley who believes one of the men, from the Northumbrian Regiment, is her great uncle.20 January 2012
Life is like a never-ending treasure hunt for genealogist Janet Gow. Her service and dedication to helping Kiwis find their familial roots has earned her a Queen's Service Medal.18 January 2012
Valentina Capuano could not believe it when the luxury cruise ship she was on began to sink - she only hoped that she would be saved like her grandmother, who survived the Titanic disaster, 100 years ago.16 January 2012
An Irish family history website have discovered records which reveal that Walt Disney’s ancestors rented 33 acres of land in County Kilkenny.10 January 2012
Sporting a fashionable officer’s mustache and gazing serenely off-camera, this Canadian First World War soldier has the bearing of a man older than his 30-some years. An inscription on the wood frame of the black-and-white photograph identifies him as Major Alfred Frank Mantle and gives his date of death – Sept. 26, 1916.9 January 2012
Almost 35 million people currently living in the US claim Irish ancestry, according to the just released figures from the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey for 2010. But in a controversial move the figures for the numbers of Scotch-Irish are no longer available. The Census Bureau has announced the change.2 January 2012
Most of the millions of Africans enslaved before 1807 were known only by numbers, the stories of their ancestry either a part of family lore or completely re-written upon their disembarkment in America.13 December 2011
The Certificate of Irish Heritage is now available in the United States and around the world. The certificate honors those ancestors who sacrificed so much by leaving Ireland and who created opportunities for later generations.21 November 2011
Africans who were taken into slavery in America during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade would be reuniting with their ancestors in one of the biggest ever home coming events to be held next year.16 November 2011
A new reality television show offering Swedish-Americans the chance to meet their long-lost Swedish relatives has some critics crying foul, but has been described by participants as the chance of a lifetime.
Researching a family's military history used to be a real challenge, but as more and more paper archives go digital and are transferred to the internet, it's becoming possible for anyone to leaf out a family tree in surprising detail by using a few tricks and knowing where to look.15 November 2011
A small coastal town in Massachusetts has now been revealed to have America’s largest slice of the Emerald Isle. The Irish eyes sure are smiling in the town of Scituate, where nearly half of the 18,000-person population is Irish, according to U.S. Census figures.9 November 2011
Such deep obsession with ancestry (“progonoplexia”) is by no means a distinctly modern fad. Indeed, it goes back thousands of years to Hesiod’s Theogony and the Bible. Nor is it a peculiarly Western phenomenon, as evident from various forms of ancestor worship all over the world.4 November 2011
Shamed former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is descended from a notorious brothel keeper who ended his life in prison, a French family tree expert has revealed. The disgraced economist is the great-grandson of 19th century 'pimp' Leon Bricot, according to respected geneologist Jean-Louis Beaucarnot.2 November 2011
With the Holocaust looming, Harry Stuart's parents left Vienna and arrived in Australia in 1938. His father's first cousin was not so fortunate. He left Krakow briefly and could not get back into Poland after the Nazi occupation. And despite having money and connections, he was unable to get his family out of the country.Older Posts - page 1 of 10