A couple of my friends have posed the question on Facebook recently: Why are some of the news outlets referring to Osama Bin Laden as “Usama?” It’s a legitimate question, and it has an answer that ties in nicely to genealogy.
In essence it boils down to transliteration. To transliterate means “to change (letters, words, etc.) [...]

I recently posted a short article relating why ProGenealogists is the ideal research team to take on our clients’ British ancestry projects. I’ve been meaning to put a brief article online on this topic for a while. At ProGenealogists, we’re invested in helping people make the next step in their family history. We find that [...]

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 [...]

Polish Marriage Records Online
Kyle J. Betit
Finding an ancestor’s home village or town in Poland can be a difficult job – especially because there are few large databases of Polish records to check online. Recently, however, some marriage databases have become available that are impressive and a good start on indexing Polish marriages online. Beware that [...]