Your 2020 Genealogy Research Plan
Achieve your genealogy goals with this year-long research plan. Follow the monthly prompts, or simply choose what tasks inspire you most and get started!
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How to Record an Interview on Your Smartphone
Follow this quick tutorial to record and save your family history interviews on your smartphone.
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Discovering a New Sibling Through DNA Results
An expected close relative led to an astonishing DNA discovery, giving one researcher a new sibling—and information on a long-hidden wartime romance.
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Making Peace with the Past: Adding a New Grandfather
One researcher grapples with a family secret unearthed by DNA test results—and how it might explain another family tragedy.
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Roundup: Free Digital History Collections
These digital history collections are great free resources for historical and genealogical information. Find your favorite and get searching!
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Findmypast Catholic Heritage Archive Continues to Grow
The Findmypast Catholic Heritage Archive continues to expand its online record collections for Catholic sacramental records in the United States, Britain and Ireland.
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1921 Census England and Wales Coming to Findmypast
Findmypast has been chosen by The National Archives (UK) to digitize and publish the much-anticipated 1921 Census of England and Wales.
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MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity: Reconstruct Your Tree
MyHeritage has a new feature that uses DNA, trees and historical records to theorize how you’re related to your DNA matches. Here's a closer look at how this feature, called the "Theory of Family Relativity," actually works.
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Ancestry MyTreeTags: Put Sticky Notes on Your Ancestors
Have you ever wished to put a sticky note on part of your family tree? Now you can, with Ancestry’s new MyTreeTags.
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AncestryDNA ThruLines Help Build Your Tree
Check out the AncestryDNA Match experience and ThruLines, which proposes possible family relationships to your matches based on trees and DNA.
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New African American Genetic Communities at AncestryDNA
African American and Afro-Caribbean genetic communities expand at AncestryDNA, offering new insights into migration and family history.
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3 Places to Share Family History Documents and Images Online
Share your family history more effectively this year! These ideas will help you share your genealogy discoveries and unique family artifacts more widely—and best yet, some of these sharing solutions only take a few minutes.
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