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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Russ talks about Footnote’s innovative efforts to bring millions of historical documents online and the importance of making research more social.