Trading card: FamilySearch
FamilySearch continues to transcribe more Swedish family history
This week, FamilySearch has transcribed a total of 1,200,000 records from family history sources around the world (primarily the USA). 27,285 of these come from a Swedish family history...
Increases the number of searchable Stockholmers
The search for ancestors on family branches that extend across the border to Sweden has long been challenging for many, but fortunately it is becoming increasingly...
FamilySearch now allows users to enter same-sex marriages
This month, FamilySearch launched a new feature that allows their users to enter same-sex marriages on the "Family Tree" service.With this, FamilySearch wants to...
After 12 years of work, FamilySearch Wiki recently reached 90,000 help articles!
FamilySearch recently sent out a press release stating that they now have as many as 90,000 articles on genealogy from all over the world in their FamilySearch Wiki.Have...
FamilySearch increases the scope of sources from the UK
Great news for those with British ancestry! Recently, FamilySearch announced that they have made available a number of new family history sources from the UK.FamilySearch highlights in its...
Increased base of potential soldiers from World War II by 7 million...
This spring, FamilySearch added a new searchable database of American draft cards from World War II. The cards were sent out in 1942, not long after the...
Genealogy will be easier from 2020
The Swedish National Archives is constantly working to simplify access to family history sources and the information they contain. There are two changes in particular that will make your work...
Danish censuses published on FamilySearch
This week, FamilySearch, in collaboration with MyHeritage, published, five historical censuses from 1835-1855. The censuses have been made searchable and contain several thousand images of the original sources.
