2010 Census in Short Premium
The 2010 census will use one of the shortest census questionnaires in history.
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Looking Forward to ’40 Premium
Genealogists are chomping at the bit for 2012’s release of the 1940 census. Here’s how to be prepared for that wonderful occasion.
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Genealogy Insider: Overcoming the Obstacles Premium
A surge of new resources is chipping away at barriers to African-American genealogy.
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Training Toolkit Premium
Create your own genealogy training plan in 2010 with our website, conference and society resources.
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Baptism Battle Premium
The debate over Mormons’ posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims flared up again last fall when the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors (AGHS) held a press conference to present its claims the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church) has violated a 1995 agreement to cease such baptisms.  ...
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Lost Voyages Found Premium
From the 15th through 19th centuries, the transatlantic slave trade sent an estimated 12.5 million Africans to the New World—the largest forced migration in modern history. As late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European. A new Web site called Voyages sheds...
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History in Shambles Premium
When the Stadtarchiv Köln—City Archive of Cologne, Germany—collapsed March 3, two people died, surrounding buildings were irretrievably damaged and more than a thousand years of records were buried in rubble. The 38-year-old archive building contained 65,000 documents, the oldest dating to 922. Holdings—more than...
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January 2010 Genealogy Insider: What’s New In News Premium
Michigan-based educational database company Gale (part of Cengage Learning) whose products include the ProQuest line of historical newspapers and genealogy collections offered in libraries, has introduced a new database of 19th-century British newspapers for at-home subscribers. British Newspapers, 1800-1900, lets you search and browse more than 2 million pages...
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All the Newspapers Premium
Genealogy Web sites are scrambling to digitize yesterday's news.
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