Each January, we celebrate the extraordinary life of Martin Luther King Jr. His life and legacy changed not only the United States of Americ…

Many people have come to know Lee Arnold through his work with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, where, after 30 years, he recently re…

To help maintain an accurate genealogical record of the human family, use the sex recorded at birth.  Record any later sex or gender-related changes as custom life events in the Other Information section.

An obituary is a brief biography of a person's life, published by newspapers or funeral homes. You can find obituaries on FamilySearch in several ways. Try your search in several places on FamilySearch.

RootsTech Connect, which will take place on 25–27 February 2021, promises to be the most globally accessible RootsTech there has ever been. …

This is the second of a two-part series exploring metadata. Read part one. In last week’s article, we discussed what metadata was. This week…

FamilySearch Family Tree is seriously huge. With over a billion unique names, it is the largest family tree in the world. Navigating such a …

Features create connections and bring family stories to life SALT LAKE CITY — FamilySearch International, a nonprofit, volunteer-driven gene…

Francesco Lotoro is an Italian pianist, composer, and conductor who has tirelessly recovered and promoted thousands of works of music compos…

The 1940 United States census was released to the public in April 2012, and more than 163,000 online volunteers indexed millions of names in…