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6-year-old Girl Scout from Pittsburgh goes viral, sells 75K boxes of cookies Pim Neill reached the milestone during this year’s cookie season, drawing national attention as videos promoting her sales circulated online, reaching millions of viewers.

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Got an incredible DNA match for a 3rd cousin from Hungary yesterday. Her great-great-grandfather was brother of my great-grandfather from Russia. Never thought I would find that close of a match for my Russian genealogy. The accuracy is incredible on MyHeritage. Get on the database.

Here is my latest photo I posted to fine art america. I miss the warmth of fall, with this terribly cold winter. fineartamerica.com/featured/loo...

I haven't had any experience with archives in that area of Poland. Has your friend joined any Polish genealogy groups on Facebook? Those groups are pretty helpful with knowing the archives in Poland. I hope your friend has a family tree on MyHeritage to help make some connections online.

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Vast database tracking Ukrainian archives going online improves with search engine Keeping track of the Ukrainian archive cases going online is an overwhelming task. Thankfully, Inspector Duck continues to crawl on the sites with those records to post the links to find them. Now,…

A search engine is available on the only database needed to find all the Ukrainian archive records going online in the massive nationwide effort. My post has search tips and a 4-page free downloadable file on using the database with Google Translate . lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/v...

So awesome! Made my first sale on Fine Art America. I had a great memories with my kid getting this photo. Got the photo in time before the tide came in while we walked far out on a sand path. We saw a baby shark that died along the path. fineartamerica.com/saleannounce...

Help Families Get the Answers They Deserve Help law enforcement identify victims, find missing persons, and reveal perpetrators of crimes.

Now that big DNA genealogy sites are stopping police from using their databases, here is a website looking for your DNA to help solve crimes and identify John & Jane Does in the USA and Canada. dnasolves.com

Another new collection from MyHeritage. OldNews is a great resource. I found information I couldn't find on another big newspaper database. www.myheritage.com/research/col...

Why solving cold case killings just got much harder for police | CBC News Police cold-case units face a new challenge in solving decades-old killings. With the world's largest storehouse of genealogy information, Ancestry.com, now banning law enforcement from using its data...

Ancestry says no to police for even its genealogy databases, not just DNA. Cold cases will remain cold cases. www.cbc.ca/news/investi...?

#genealogy #jewishgenealogy #jewishhistory #holocaustandgenocidestudies #genealogist #geneticgenealogy | Caitlin Hollander Waas I do not post here often, but will today: Shame on 23andMe for this. Not only are they making a value judgement relating to a toddler murdered in a genocidal pogrom, but it’s also factually incorrect...

Quite the insensitive naming of a Jewish toddler sample at 23andme. Caitlin Hollander Waas, Chief Genealogist at JewishGen, posted about this on LinkedIn. Will 23andme identify all "inbred" samples? The poor child was murdered. www.linkedin.com/posts/caitli...

Free searchable database reveals hard-to-find details on Soviet-era persecution victims Databases for Soviet-era persecution victims have been online for many years but another database is offering information that has been hard to find on these victims. The Last Address Foundation ha…

If you had relatives who were persecuted in the Soviet era, check out this post on finding more information on them. I explain how to use the database without knowing Russian and using Google Translate. The database has a list of victims, too. lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/f...

Man brings stolen $30K harp to Point State Park before jumping into river, police say A man brought a stolen harp worth $30,000 to Point State Park and left it on the riverbank before jumping into the icy water on Wednesday afternoon, Pittsburgh Public Safety said.

Life is stranger than fiction. I can't imagine this happens very often... www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Don't miss the free access to MyHeritage's 305 Australian collections, covering births, marriages, deaths, immigration, military service, convict records, and much more. www.myheritage.com/research/cat...

Now Live: 4 Major U.K. and Ireland Collections — Passenger Lists and Nonconformist Vital Records - MyHeritage Blog We’re excited to announce the release of four major historical record collections from the United Kingdom and Ireland, now available on MyHeritage. These

Anyone a fan of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein? MyHeritage has posted two church records for Mary from the late 1700s. There are also three immigration records of Alfred Hitchcock in this blog post- blog.myheritage.com/2026/01/now-...

MyHeritage just added collections for United Kingdom, Ireland, and Wales, with indexed and high-quality scans from The National Archives, London. MyHeritage offers 692 historical record collections from the United Kingdom. blog.myheritage.com/2026/01/now-...

1890 New York City Police Census - MyHeritage Discover your ancestry - search Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, census records, immigration lists and other records - all in one family search!

And another new collection on MyHeritage,1890 New York Police Census, www.myheritage.com/research/col.... This collection of about 1.5 million records includes reconstructed household relationships, making this rare census far more useful.

England & Wales Probate Index, 1858-1995 - MyHeritage Discover your ancestry - search Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, census records, immigration lists and other records - all in one family search!

Check out the new collection on MyHeritage, England & Wales Probate Index (1858–1995) to research your relatives and ancestors in estates and beneficiaries. More than 37 million records are available. www.myheritage.com/research/col...

So darn happy with MyHeritage now. I was stuck on finding info on a Russian lady who immigrated to Algeria and then to the USA. I found her ship passenger record and marriage announcement in a French Algerian newspaper (the awesome OldNews database). Not as lucky on Ancestry... Never give up...

MyHeritage likes to end the year with a big surprise. Now, you can unlock 40 DNA traits for $19 and have a traits subscription for a year for free. Another 15 DNA traits are in the works. My results came in a few hours. Check out the feature here- www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJL7...

‘I was abandoned as a baby – 80 years later I found my brother living a mile away’ John Moore was abandoned as a baby on Christmas Eve 1944. Decades later, a Christmas present helped unravel the mystery and led him to his half-brother

So awesome. This is why I push the MyHeritage DNA test. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Got an amazing tip from a German MyHeritage user for my German genealogy research in western Poland. He told me about Geschlechterbuchs. Anyone have experience with these records? We are researching the same surname in the same village. I love how helpful MyHeritage users can be.

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Free U.S. Database Searches the Text of 1.1 Million Russian Newspaper Pages Searching the text of more than 1 million pages of Russian newspapers from the 20th century has become easy, thanks to a major ongoing project of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in St…

Text from more than 1 million pages of almost 600 newspapers printed worldwide for Russians can be searched, thanks to a database from Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The post includes a free 4-page step-by-step guide on using this database. lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/f...

Here's proof that more results for Eastern European genealogy can be found on MyHeritage. A family tree I created to find connections to my ancestors has been on Ancestry for more than 10 years. I have family tree matches only on MyHeritage after two weeks. MyHeritage is worth trying, too.

About 120 million pages were added in 2025 alone, with newspapers from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Australia, and many more countries on the way. An incredible resource as I research different family lines. www.oldnews.com/en

MyHeritage is busy, busy. Stay tuned to big news coming this month. I never imagined that genealogy platforms would be so cool. So glad I opened myself to MyHeritage.

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