MyHeritage, the leading online destination for families, with more than 27 million worldwide members, has just released the new Family Tree Builder 3 with improved standard and premium features, available as a free download from www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder.

Genealogy New Year’s resolutions are a good way to renew your family history spirit. Here are a few of my New Year’s Resolution I would like for you to consider when making your own commitments for the 2009 year in genealogy.

Obituarieshelp.org is your resource guide for obituaries and genealogy. It has the most complete online resource for newspaper obituaries, sympathy ideas, funeral resources and searchable family ancestors records.

Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Grandduchy of Baden, second edition, written by Kevan M. Hansen is part of a series compiled to make accessing German records easier. “Its purpose is to aid in identifying what church records to search if a specific town is known", plus much more.

NY City-based Familybuilder‚(http://www.familybuilder.com),the fastest-growing genealogy service on the Internet used by more than 5 million people on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, and Orkut, today announces the release of Familybuilder DNA, its line of popularly-priced home genealogy DNA tests.

A researcher had gotten her African American ancestors to the 1870 census, and like a lot of you, hit a brick wall. It was not beginning classes she needed, but a few suggestions where to look next and a whole lot of luck. Here are some sugestions that might help.

Legal documents are often researched when documenting for genealogy data. Knowing the meanings of legal terminology can help in research.

Familybuilder.com launched their first social network application, Family Tree, in June of 2007 to help people build their family trees on Facebook,etc. Now they are offering a great deal on DNA testing. (Guest author David Rheins)

DNA and Genealogy is a topic that many are gaining an interest in. I am learning right along side my readers. I recently attended a seminar and Genealogy & DNA was one of our topics. Here is a portion of what I learned.

I enjoy doing research. The satisfaction is there whether it is my own family, friend or a client. But, on that same thought, the frustration over a brick wall is just as great. When I´m about ready to give up, something happens or “shows” up in my eyesight, which lets me know I should keep going.