Simple Citations for Genealogical Sources; by Jeffry P. La Marca, Ph.D.; 2024; 161 pp. – 72 in color!   NEW for 2024! Family Roots Publishing is excited to announce that Jeff La Marca’s new book on citing genealogical sources is now available. The book may be purchased as soft cover, PDF eBook, or a bundle of both. Researching your family history is a fascinating hobby. It often connects you to numerous previously unknown family members and brings history to life! While it is now easier than ever to construct a genealogy, there is one obstacle that can render your research meaningless – t ..read more

Family Roots Publishing has a new book in print and we’re very excited about it! Exploring Norwegian Genealogy is a Norwegian genealogy research guide, written in English, by the writing team of Liv Birgit Christensen, and Margaret H. Strand – a Norway native, and a Scottish expat with over 40 years living in Norway. I’ve been working with them for a year or more, while they’ve finished the volume. It’s 318 pages in 8.5×11 format, and loaded with how-to information on researching your Norwegian ancestry. Both women are genealogists with wide experience. This volume allows an in-depth look ..read more

The following is from my friend, Daniel Horowitz, at MyHeritage: Adding color to your family tree is a great way to visualize your tree while making it even easier to navigate and understand family relationships. We previously implemented color coding in Fan view of the family tree as well as the Family Tree Timeline. We have now added this feature to Family view and Pedigree view as well, and have made several significant enhancements to better understand the relationships in a family tree, such as indication of blood relationships and the ability to view relationships and relationship diagra ..read more

Although the NEW Family Roots Publishing website is still under construction, we are opening it up for sales. The site is secure and customers can pay for products using their Credit Cards, as well as GooglePay and ApplePay.  We have decided to offer all products at the site for an additional 20% off through Tuesday, November 29. Just enter the words “Black Friday” in the Offer Code box at checkout. Examples of items available are hundreds of German, Austrian and Swiss related research books, many Irish research titles, and books dealing with Migration, Census, Census Substitutes, and man ..read more

I’m inviting my readers to join me in testing with MyHeritage DNA. You can get DNA kits for just $36 each and a 30-day free trial of the MyHeritage Complete plan. I currently have 10,421 matches at MyHeritage, with 9 being 1st cousins and other extended family. The rest are more distant relatives – many of whom are in Europe. If you are looking for the perfect holiday gift, get MyHeritage DNA for the lowest price EVER — only $36 (Reg. $89) per kit. As a Black Friday bonus, you can also get a 30-day free trial* for the Complete plan — their best plan for family history research. If y ..read more

Family Roots Publishing is excited to announce that Bill Dollarhide’s new American Migration Routes: Part II – Stagecoach, Steamboat, Canal & Early Railroad Routes is now shipping. The book is 15% off until midnight PDT Wednesday, November 2, 2022 – available at Biblio.com, as well as Amazon.com. And the first 300 buyers (of either Part I or Part II) will get autographed copies. We also set up the sale to run on Part I at the same discounted price – and Bill signed copies so we can make the same offer. The team is still building the new site for Family Roots Publishing at Shopify, but we’r ..read more

The following was received from the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy: The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) wishes to announce registration dates and times for SLIG and Academy 2023. SLIG 2023 registration opens July 16, 2022 at 10:00 am MDT. The registration web address is https://registration.ugagenealogy.org/ View course outlines and videos for SLIG 2023 here:  https://slig.ugagenealogy.org/cpage.php?pt=641 Academy 2023 registration opens July 16, 2022 at 2:00 pm MDT. The registration web address is https://registration.ugagenealogy.org/ View course outlines and ..read more

On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum steamboat disaster in New York City decimated their German-American community. At Geneanet, they are honoring the victims and survivors of the tragedy with the family trees of every known passenger. The project is free and collaborative project that is open to all. The site now has over 3000 individuals indexed in the 700 families affected by the tragedy. “On June 15, 1904 — 118 years ago this week — a terrible disaster befell the German-American community of New York City: a chartered steamboat burned and sank in the East River with the loss of over a thou ..read more

I’ve had a MyHeritage membership since 2011 when they acquired WorldVitalRecords.com from Paul Allen. Goodness – that’s over a decade. When I heard of the acquisition, I immediately saw the value in a membership, as even back then they had about 20 million family trees on their website, many of which were made by people in Europe. Think being able to contact cousin in the “old country!” I continue to use the site on a regular basis, and consider it essential to my genealogy research. I’m again excited to share an exclusive offer for GenealogyBlog and Genealogy Newsline readers: 50 ..read more

You’ve not heard from us for a while. Besides ongoing health issues, I’ve been plagued by website challenges, supplier closures, and difficulties involving supply chains. Following is a brief explanation. First – as deals with my health. As most of you know, I had Covid in January of 2021. That morphed into Long Covid, which (among other things) caused extreme fatigue and brain fog. After personally walking away for a while, I finally got through it. Looking back, I think I dealt with it for a year. I’ve had spinal arthritis for about 5 years. It’s gotten continually worse, and I now see a pai ..read more