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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 18, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As of February 9, 2016, the Freedmen's Bureau Project reached a significant milestone with more than one million records transcribed. Nationwide...

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the largest family history conference in the world, is looking forward to over 20,000 visitors over four days with an exciting array of...

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the world's largest family history technology conference, will turn the spotlight on highly successful tech entrepreneur and founder of...

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the largest family history conference in the world, announced Doris Kearns Goodwin has joined its lineup of keynote speakers. Goodwin, a...

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch's Family History Library (FHL) in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on October 23, 2015. When the new...

SALT LAKE CITY, July 15, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A record-setting 100,000 online volunteers are expected to participate in the second annual Worldwide Indexing Event, facilitating millions of...

SALT LAKE CITY, March 25, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Knowles Collection, a quickly growing, free online Jewish genealogy database linking generations of Jewish families from all over the world,...

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 14, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StoryWorth, a San Francisco start up company that offers an email-based storytelling service, today swept the RootsTech Innovator Showdown, winning...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech 2015, already the largest family history conference in the world, is on track to surpass last year's record of 13,000...

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch.org, a free top genealogy website, has published billions of free searchable historic records online, helping feed the growing frenzy...