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It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.”

1 Nephi 4: 13

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FamilySearch increases access to British historical records

FamilySearch announced that it has teamed up with Findmypast.com to increase online access to British historical records. The first projects are retired servicemen and merchant seamen records.

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New free genealogy guides for England and Scotland

FamilySearch releases two new free research tools to help those with British and Scottish roots find their ancestors. The research guides are "Finding Records of Your Ancestors, England" and "Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Scotland."

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Four centuries of London criminal trials now online

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Scientists find frozen man's living relatives

He was frozen in a glacier for up to 329 years. Now scientists have used genetics to find 17 of his relatives now living in Canada and Alaska. To read the full story, click here. For some caveats, click here.

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Woman uses genealogy website for identity theft

A woman allegedly used Utah-based Rootsweb.com to find Social Security numbers and birth dates of dead people. She then used the information to use the still-active credit card accounts of those dead people. To read the full story click here.

African Americans to trace family histories at first ever conference

Hundreds of people will gather at the Cherry Hill Stake Center in New Jersey this month to learn new techniques for researching African American ancestry and hear from scholars and sponsors in the black genealogical community.

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The Catholic Church has ordered dioceses across the globe not to give information in parish registers to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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