Want to find where people having your last name are found?

“Discover the Origin of Your Last Name” is a web site offering that promises to help you find distribution of names across countries and regions. The site mainly focuses on surnames, because more people with the same surname in a place, means something: either those people are in the region since long ago and the name originates from there or nearby, or members of the same family for some reason relocated there. Want to find where people having your last name are found?

The key to solving Lela Johnston's murder sat in evidence for nearly 50 years before police had the means to identify her killer.

But DNA alone wasn't enough to find out who assaulted and murdered Johnston, a 68-year-old woman who lived alone on north Robinson Avenue in May 1976. Detectives with the OKCPD Cold Case Unit announced this week that for the first time, they used genealogy research to solve a murder case. Putting a face to the DNA profile finally gave Johnston's family the closure they deserve.

Use this once and you will delete everything made by Google from your hard drive:

Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020 he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos. He feared that his content could be used to train AI systems, even if they weren’t specifically ones tied to the Pentagon project. “I don't control any of the...

The Adai Caddo Indian Nation is pleased to announce it has been recognized by the Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society (LGHS) as one of the state’s indigenous tribes. As part of this recognition, the Adai Caddo Indian Nation was recorded in the official state registry of indigenous tribes in Baton Rouge. 

On Aug. 28, 1988, Pierce County Deputies (Washington) responded to a call of a body found in the Puyallup River near Sumner, Washington. A fisherman had located the body of a woman, identified two months later as Tracy Whitney.

Detectives were called out to the scene and an autopsy was performed. The autopsy revealed Whitney's cause of death to be asphyxia by strangulation and probable smothering. She had several blunt force injuries and was believed to have been sexually assaulted. Her death was ruled a homicide and DNA swabs taken from the body.

From: https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/franklin-county-library-system-brings-a-new-partnership-and-new-family-records/

Thanks to our new partners at Franklin County Library System, we are excited to announce that nearly a thousand new funeral programs and obituaries are now available on DigitalNC. The funeral programs and obituaries are divided by name and date and can be found in three records on our site:

Today is the first day of the month. That is a good time to back up your genealogy files. Then test your backups!

Your backups aren't worth much unless you make a quick test by restoring a small file or two after the backup is completed.

Actually, you can make backups at any time. However, it is easier and safer if you have a specific schedule. The first day of the month is easy to remember, so I would suggest you back up your genealogy files at least on the first day of every month, if not more often. (My...