Much Anticipated Historic Freedmen's Bureau Project Reaches Halfway Point with More Than One Million Records Transcribed
February 18, 2016 16:29 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 18, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As of February 9, 2016, the Freedmen's Bureau Project reached a significant milestone with more than one million records transcribed. Nationwide...
Family History Enthusiasts Worldwide Gathering in Utah for RootsTech 2016
January 27, 2016 13:57 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the largest family history conference in the world, is looking forward to over 20,000 visitors over four days with an exciting array of...
InsideSales.com Founder Ken Krogue to Keynote RootsTech's Innovator Summit
January 13, 2016 16:04 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the world's largest family history technology conference, will turn the spotlight on highly successful tech entrepreneur and founder of...
Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, to keynote RootsTech 2016
November 17, 2015 11:19 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the largest family history conference in the world, announced Doris Kearns Goodwin has joined its lineup of keynote speakers. Goodwin, a...
Mormon Family History Library Still Connecting Generations of Families after 30 Years
October 22, 2015 09:15 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch's Family History Library (FHL) in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on October 23, 2015. When the new...
One Week. 100,000 Online Volunteers. Time to "Fuel the Find!"
July 15, 2015 13:59 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 15, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A record-setting 100,000 online volunteers are expected to participate in the second annual Worldwide Indexing Event, facilitating millions of...
Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries
March 25, 2015 07:11 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, March 25, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Knowles Collection, a quickly growing, free online Jewish genealogy database linking generations of Jewish families from all over the world,...
StoryWorth Sweeps RootsTech Innovator Showdown
February 14, 2015 17:37 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 14, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StoryWorth, a San Francisco start up company that offers an email-based storytelling service, today swept the RootsTech Innovator Showdown, winning...
Laura Bush and Donny Osmond to Share Family Stories at RootsTech
February 04, 2015 16:00 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech 2015, already the largest family history conference in the world, is on track to surpass last year's record of 13,000...
2014's Top 10 Free Online Ancestry Databases
December 29, 2014 06:04 ET
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SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch.org, a free top genealogy website, has published billions of free searchable historic records online, helping feed the growing frenzy...