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By Laurie Bradshaw ,

July 1, 2019

FamilySearch expanded its free online archives in June of 2019 with over 15 million new indexed family history records from all over the wor…

By Sunny Jane Morton ,

July 14, 2018

Did your immigrant ancestors land at Castle Garden or Ellis Island? Or did they arrive in New York before those facilities existed? The answ…

By Logan Paulich ,

August 27, 2014

FamilySearch has added more than 7.2 million indexed records and images to collections from Argentina, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, Sweden…

By Amanda L. Wallis ,

February 3, 2015

FamilySearch adds more than 3.3 million indexed records and images to El Salvador and the United States. Notable collection updates include …

By Logan Steele ,

September 11, 2015

New and old worlds collide in this extended collections update. View your Italian roots with the Italy Cremona Civil Registration (State Arc…

By Logan Paulich ,

May 5, 2014

FamilySearch has added more than 5.4 million images to collections from England, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and the …

By Alison J. Herzog ,

March 27, 2015

A woman casts a ballot for the 1872 presidential election, even though it means she will be charged and brought to trial.

By Logan Steele ,

October 14, 2015

The big winner this week is United States World War II Draft Registration Cards 1942 with over a million records added to the collection. Ot…

By Rob Goates ,

December 28, 2012

FamilySearch added an additional 38.5 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include th…

By Leslie Albrecht Huber ,

September 2, 2016

For many people, tracing immigrant ancestors across the ocean to their old world origins feels a little like finding a needle in a haystack.…