NewspaperArchive.com has changed ownership in recent years. This article takes an in-depth look at the new owners and reviews the history of the founder and former owner. Who Owns NewspaperArchive.com? NewspaperArchive.com was owned by founder Christopher Gill from its launch in 1999 to its purchase in 2020. The operating company, World Archives LLC, was acquired … Read more
GenealogyBank has a growing archive of American newspapers and obituaries that could be a huge benefit to your family history research. The challenge is figuring out whether GenealogyBank has relevant material for your ancestors and relatives. You don’t want to purchase an annual subscription and come up empty on your searches. This review goes in-depth … Read more
GenealogyBank has archives for newspapers and obituaries as well as other collections. This article covers my best tips for searching the Newspaper archives on GenealogyBank. Simple And Advanced Search On GenealogyBank Before I get to the tips, I’ll run quickly through the search interface on the website. The basic search interface on GenealogyBank is very … Read more
GenealogyBank is one of several newspaper archives available to family history enthusiasts. But who owns the GenealogyBank website and subscription service? There’s an interesting history behind the brand. Who Owns GenealogyBank? GenealogyBank is a newspaper and genealogical record subscription service owned by NewsBank, a private company headquartered in Florida. NewsBank was founded in 1972 by … Read more
Ancestry.com used to sell a separate DNA test that provided health reports to customers. They discontinued this product in early 2021. There’s been plenty of speculation as to why AncestryHealth was canned. This article covers the brief history of the product with a round-up of opinions on its short life span! What Was AncestryHealth? Ancestry … Read more
Do you feel a little overwhelmed when looking at your Ancestry DNA matches? I find that a great way to tackle thousands of matches is to download them into a spreadsheet. This article has a step-by-step tutorial on downloading your Ancestry matches to our Excel spreadsheet template. There are quick videos for each step so … Read more
The MyHeritage Photo Enhancer can make blurry family photographs from the early 1900s look like they were taken with a high-resolution camera. The results can be remarkably good. The application also tries to replace blurred or obscured parts of your images using complex algorithms. This article looks at how this works (and sometimes doesn’t work). … Read more
You may wish to change the name of your family tree on MyHeritage after you first create it. If you started the tree on the website, it’s named after the first surname you added. If you imported the tree from a GEDCOM file, then it picks up the name of the file – which is … Read more
You must link your DNA results to your MyHeritage family tree to let all the website features work for your family research. This step is easy to forget if you replace your tree with a newer version. I speak from experience, so let’s run through all the steps. But before we fix the issue, I’ll … Read more
I have uploaded my raw DNA results to four sites for free: GEDmatch, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, and Living DNA. This article gives you tutorials on uploading to each site. I also purchased DNA kits from Ancestry and 23andMe. These two companies do not currently accept uploads from elsewhere. However, I have a workaround for you that … Read more