Gifts can fuel genealogy interest Sun, Nov 16, 2008 | Add a comment Here are some creative ways to celebrate your family history during the holiday season: →Collect small flags that symbolize a state or country representing a family origin and put them on a...

‘Sleuth Book’ provides tips Sun, Nov 9, 2008 | Add a comment Genealogy pieces together a puzzle of ancestors: the lives they lived and the people with whom they associated. The process raises many questions and challenges for researchers. Some are more...

Edmond family's secret turns out to be revealing story Fri, Nov 7, 2008 | Add a comment EDMOND — It took Gary and Pam Rollins of Edmond two years to solve their family’s mysteries, but they are glad they did. "To me it’s a story of revelation. It’s the...

Norman chili contest funds to help groups Mon, Nov 3, 2008 | Add a comment CHARITY Chili contest funds to help groupsThe Community Services Building received $3,572 in money and pledges from Friday’s annual chili cook-off and silent auction. Proceeds help the...

Magazine has Web links to genealogy Sun, Nov 2, 2008 | Add a comment The November issue of Internet Genealogy: Researching Your Family Roots Online, founded by Halvor Moorshead and published and edited by Ed Zapletal, provides information about Internet sites of...

Publication of land patents planned Sun, Jun 11, 2006 Greg Boyd, president of Arphax Publishing Company, recently announced that future publications of the Family Maps series of Federal Land Patent books will be only in deluxe edition format. The...

Book offers guidance on research Sun, Jun 4, 2006 Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. recently announced the 11th edition of "The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America." The book has provided genealogical guidance for family history...

Quilt stories will celebrate centennial Sun, May 28, 2006 Oklahoma's centennial celebration features many projects by individuals, organizations and communities to record our state's historical events and preserve original records. Judy Howard, author of...

Civil War book more than names, dates Sun, May 21, 2006 Oklahoma genealogist and author Linda Hare recently published her book, "Seven Hares in the Civil War." Hare has done an exceptional job of demonstrating how a variety of Civil War records can be...

Cherokee conference set in Tulsa Thu, May 18, 2006 The Cherokee Ancestry Conference, "A Cherokee Road Trip: Down Genealogy Lane," sponsored by the Cherokee Heritage Center of Tahlequah, will be June 9-10 at Best Western Trade Winds Central Inn,...

Summer seminars can build skills Thu, May 18, 2006 Genealogists and family historians have opportunities to sharpen their skills and learn research techniques at society meetings, conferences, workshops and seminars this summer. "They Passed This...

Records move to history center Thu, May 18, 2006 The Oklahoma Historical Society has been the repository of books, archival materials, and family research records about Oklahoma and its people since 1893. The OHS library collections have grown...

Interest in genealogy becomes an obsession Thu, May 18, 2006 Newspapers, electronics yield exciting information EDMOND - On most weekends, Robin Roads can be found digging through old, dusty records or sitting at a computer scanning for buried treasures...

Book provides answers on genealogy Thu, May 18, 2006 Pat Richley, known online as "Dear MYRTLE," recently announced the publication of her book, "DearMYRTLE's Joy of Genealogy." Richley's "DearMYRTLE" genealogy columns have appeared online for 11...

Family Search: Project to help identify photographs Thu, May 18, 2006 The Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, in cooperation with the Southwest Oklahoma Historical Society, the Center for Creative Living and the Museum of the Great Plains, has a project to help...

Book details Jamestown's residents Thu, May 18, 2006 Next year, Virginia will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. recently announced the...

New technology unlocking the vault Thu, May 18, 2006 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Granite Mountain Vault microfilmed records are being converted to digital images. "I call it unlocking the vault," says Heath Nielson, the...

Comparison may help date photos Thu, May 18, 2006 Halvor Moorshead, publisher and editor of Family Chronicle and Internet Genealogy magazines, is seeking family undated old photographs for a special feature in the July/August issue of Family...

Group wants death records open to online researchers Thu, May 18, 2006 Some branches of the family tree are more difficult to reach than others. Billie Fogarty, president of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society, believes online access to the Oklahoma "death index"...

Records help kin climb family tree Thu, May 18, 2006 TULSA -- Although reporters use public records to gather news,most people use them to understand proposed zoning issues intheir community, find crime reports for insurance claims or eventrack...