Direct Line Genealogical Research & Publishing

07/12/2023

https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gro-digital-image-birth-death-records/?fbclid=IwAR16JA3Fclz_-DdE9zs5GVr0CJA8xRTnUwimLOKv20mE5-AHYV0xqmdJrTk

Family historians can now order instant-access images of birth records from 1837-1922 and deaths from 1837-1887

08/09/2022

New genealogical tool. https://grandmasgenes.com/greg-clarkes-6-degrees-app/?fbclid=IwAR17fzeIB0Y2g5ZehDgn4YlG9OORMPTswGQZdxp0KxvDGYqPPQGBNP1QR1wNew

Greg Clarke has created a tool at WikiTree that has gotten a lot of hype in the last little bit. Aside from the fact that it’s a cool tool to see your six degrees of family relationships? There is an aspect of this tool that is great for those working on the Genetic Genealogy of … Continue readi...

06/20/2022

Coming soon!

A momentous anniversary is approaching. 30 June 2022 marks the centenary of the destruction of the Four Courts in Dublin in the opening engagement of the Irish Civil War. Located within the Four Courts complex along the River Liffey was the Public Records Office of Ireland, where seven centuries of....

05/19/2022

DNA Painter offers new tool. https://dnapainter.com/blog/introducing-the-library-of-matches/?fbclid=IwAR3afMpJ8OBr5k2BiThFrjdVOIZJH7iN2tmTaMMMoQCoNPDeuitEmX1iGE4

The Library of Matches is a new tool with example shared segments for different matches, which could help you figure out relationships.

05/19/2022

If you haven't seen this yet, it's a must watch. What an amazing story!

An Air Force veteran wanted a new house for large family gatherings; he ended up getting an incredible link to his family’s past. ...

04/01/2022

Happy April Fool's Day! The 1950 Federal Census is now online for searching. If you have time, help the National Archive transcribe the records.

The 1950 census records were released by the U.S. National Archives on April 1, 2022. This website provides full access to the 1950 census images, including population schedules, enumeration district maps, and enumeration district descriptions.

04/01/2022

It's finally back! Coming in July, Sundays on NBC. Looking forward to its return.

Longtime staples 'America's Got Talent' and 'American Ninja Warrior' are also set, as is new series 'Dancing With Myself.'

03/20/2022

One of my favorite ways to track a hard-to-find-ancestor. City directories are such an underused resource. Using the directories with census records can open so many doors.

See how I found my hard-to-search, common-named ancestor by browsing the census on researching in city directories on Ancestry.com.

03/16/2022

FYI.

The announcement we never saw coming... It's not for nothing that New York in general -- and New York City in particular -- is called the black hole of northern genealogy. From records loss on one side -- can we say “New York Capitol Fire,” boys and girls? -- to records access limits on the ot

02/03/2022

Here's an app that might help direct your search if you use FamilySearch.org. https://www.familyhistoryfanatics.com/puzzilla-genealogy

02/03/2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scientists-find-genetic-marker-carried-by-robert-the-bruces-relatives/ar-AATn4AD?ocid=winp-sf

Genealogy researchers from the University of Strathclyde found the marker in male line descendants of the Bruces of Clackmannan, who were related to Robert the Bruce.

01/29/2022

https://knox.villagesoup.com/2022/01/20/camden-library-launches-online-archives-of-the-camden-herald/?fbclid=IwAR2GJfanQ4l7bxHZKroaYjvcq0rVFAPOzVi6gtK0xQyVX3lFfiGVbU6jBiE

The Camden Public Library has digitized and posted online the archives of the Camden Herald for the first 125 years of the newspaper, with more to come.