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Much Anticipated Historic Freedmen's Bureau Project Reaches Halfway Point with More Than One Million Records Transcribed
February 18, 2016 16:29 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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Family History Enthusiasts Worldwide Gathering in Utah for RootsTech 2016
January 27, 2016 13:57 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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InsideSales.com Founder Ken Krogue to Keynote RootsTech's Innovator Summit
January 13, 2016 16:04 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, to keynote RootsTech 2016
November 17, 2015 11:19 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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Mormon Family History Library Still Connecting Generations of Families after 30 Years
October 22, 2015 09:15 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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One Week. 100,000 Online Volunteers. Time to "Fuel the Find!"
July 15, 2015 13:59 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries
March 25, 2015 07:11 ET | FamilySearch
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,...
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StoryWorth Sweeps RootsTech Innovator Showdown
February 14, 2015 17:37 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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Laura Bush and Donny Osmond to Share Family Stories at RootsTech
February 04, 2015 16:00 ET | FamilySearch
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...
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2014's Top 10 Free Online Ancestry Databases
December 29, 2014 06:04 ET | FamilySearch
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...