This post has been a few months in the making, but I finally have the time to sit back and let the words flow. Do you ever stop and marvel about the widespread interest in genealogy not just in the United States, but also in other countries? Sometimes I am amazed by the connections we [...]

The collection of records at Ancestry.com continues to grow. Lately Ancestry.com has begun to fill in holes for researchers who have been studying their London ancestors. Anyone with experience of London research will know just how challenging, and most of all, how time consuming it can be. The transcription of Church of England burial and [...]

For those of you out there with Hungarian ancestry (or ancestors from the former Kingdom of Hungary), you will want to be aware of a great resource book by Jordan Auslander called Genealogical Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary. This gazetteer is based on the 1877 Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary. It includes incredibly [...]

Freeholder records are a record source that likely seems pretty obscure to most researchers. Many people probably have never heard of a freeholder. However, we have made an inventory of freeholders, freemen, and voting records for Ireland available on our web site. I compiled this inventory because there wasn’t a good overall inventory of where freeholder [...]

This week at the National Genealogical Society conference here in Salt Lake City, I was thrilled to see the progress being made by FamilySearch in publishing/indexing European records. Many new European records are available on FamilySearch’s Record Search site including from Austria, France, Ireland, Russia, and Ukraine, among other countries. These are some of the [...]

Many people have contacted ProGenealogists about the possibility of becoming an Italian citizen through descent. We have assisted many clients in this endeavor. If you have Italian ancestry, then you may be interested to learn about this option.

I will not take the time here to outline all of the requirements one must meet to claim [...]

Many people ask us at ProGenealogists about obtaining Irish citizenship through their ancestors. Ireland’s laws on this subject are more liberal than most other European countries. If one of your grandparents was born on the island of Ireland (including in present-day Northern Ireland), you can obtain citizenship in the Republic of Ireland by documenting your grandparent and your [...]

If you have ancestors that lived in Stockholm and haven’t yet visited Stockholms Stadsarkiv you should take a look at the resources available there. Depending on the time period in which you are interested, you may just find the answers to some of your research questions on this site. In addition to offering indexes and [...]

During college football season this year, I got to see the following commercial quite a lot.

And I always thought after it was over that the father and son should have hired us before embarking on a European journey to discover their ancestral lands.

There are many excellent resources out there for the genealogists studying their English heritage. We all know about sites such as Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com and the the like. However, the English county record offices and other county-level governmental bodies are slowly but surely digitizing a great deal of old records. It is interesting that many of [...]