In a recent episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Lionel Richie found listings for his great grandfather, a man his family never talked about, in the Nashville city directories for 1880 and 1885. The occupation and address information … Continue reading
Category Archives: News
Searching at The National Archives
March 4, 2011 by Peter | 6 Comments
This week we sent a couple of our top agents out to The National Archives in Washington DC and Maryland on a mission to find new and interesting documents that we can digitize and put on Footnote. Details are still … Continue reading
The records behind Vanessa Williams’ Civil War ancestor
February 7, 2011 by Laura | 5 Comments
If you tuned into Who Do You Think You Are? last Friday night, you watched Vanessa Williams discover some surprising family history within her great-great grandfather’s Civil War pension file. Her ancestor, David Carll, a black man from Oyster Bay, … Continue reading
Ancestry.com and Footnote.com
October 21, 2010 by Blake Scarbrough | 46 Comments
Several weeks ago Footnote.com (as part of iArchives) agreed to be acquired by Ancestry.com and that transaction has officially closed. As we join forces with Ancestry.com there is a huge opportunity to leverage each other’s strengths and move even faster … Continue reading
Finding Camp Lawton
August 16, 2010 by Peter | 4 Comments
CNN posted this interesting story today about what some folks have called, “one of the most significant Civil War discoveries in decades.” Some students from Georgia Southern have found what may be, “the exact location of a stockade and dozens … Continue reading
The Historical Value of Money
August 11, 2010 by Blake Scarbrough | 3 Comments
If you are like most of us, you had grandparents who said things like, “I remember back in 1935 when gas only 15 cents a gallon.” Looking back, most everything looked like a bargain. You might even catch yourself telling … Continue reading
Sillicon Slopes interview with Russ Wilding, CEO of Footnote.com
August 10, 2010 by Trevor | 2 Comments
Russ talks about Footnote’s innovative efforts to bring millions of historical documents online and the importance of making research more social.