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April 25, 2026

Additional Guided Learning Videos

The list of new Guided Learning videos continues to grow. At this writing, we now have over 150 videos, with more to come. Here are the latest additions to the Guided Learning page: About the Avatars Each Guided Learning video is hosted by an AI avatar who introduces you to the topic and provides instructions on the tasks to complete....

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April 12, 2026

Irish 1926 Census Online

Something that doesn’t happen very often is getting a new collection of census records released to the public. In the case of Ireland census records, it has certainly been a while. The last release was the 1911 census, made available to the public in 1961, with digital records placed online in 2009. For those doing family history research in Ireland,...

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April 4, 2026

New Practice Exercises for England Counties

One of our Content Managers, Brent Bunker, has been busy creating Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide for record collections in England counties. Here’s a list of additions that were recently made: We hope you enjoy the new Practice Exercises for England counties!

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March 21, 2026

Researching Indentured, Transported, and Enslaved Ancestors

Note: This article was originally published on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. Note: The time links refer to the video. A “brick wall” is a common frustration for genealogists, particularly when an ancestor seems to “magically appear” in the American colonies with no discernible connection to an overseas origin. For many researchers, this missing link is not a matter of...

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January 31, 2026

Update: New Guided Learning Videos

We’ve been hard at work with the Guided Learning video library, preparing for RootsTech 2026 in just over a month. Since our last update, we have added over 20 new videos for international research, and we have enhanced some of the features for our existing videos. Here’s a recap of the changes: New Videos New: Screenshot Links Previously, the screenshots...

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December 27, 2025

An Update of the Now Seventeen Rules of Genealogy

Note: This article appeared previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. The recent BYU Library Family History Center webinar “An Update of the Now Seventeen Rules of Genealogy” is also available on YouTube – https://youtu.be/mDIGO80_xCM. Here is a summary of the YouTube video. This presentation, delivered by James Tanner at the BYU Library Family History Center, provides a vital “reality...

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November 16, 2025

More Practice Exercises, England Counties

Over the past few weeks we have added more Record Search Practice Exercises for England counties. Below are the new additions so far, with more to come. To access the England county pages, use the the alphabetical list in the England country page (just below the main picture). To see a complete list of Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide, click here for...

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October 18, 2025

Name the Town, Find the Ancestors

I have a friend who was recently called to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the Birmingham England Mission. I sent him an email to ask what town he was currently in, and he said that the town is Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk county. That rang a bell, as I remembered...

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October 12, 2025

Finding Records Lost Online in the AI Universe

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. FamilySearch.org‘s Full-text Search capability is an overwhelming change to way genealogical searches are conducted and may well modify or replace any current way of searching historical documents. At the heart of using a previously unavailable tool for genealogical research is an artificial intelligence supported handwriting recognition. Currently, the...

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October 4, 2025

New Practice Exercises, England Counties

Over the past few weeks we have begun adding Record Search Practice Exercises for England counties. Below are the new additions so far, with more to come. Note: the census links below apply to electoral records. (There are already quite a few church and cemetery Practice Exercises for England counties.) To access the England county pages, use the the alphabetical...

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