The Villages Genealogical Society

12/17/2025

11/10/2025

Free YouTube Tutorials this week on Finding Your Veteran’s Records in Record Collections from Archives I, Archives II, and NNational Archives at St. Louis
https://tinyurl.com/TwistedTwigsVeteransDayGift

11/10/2025

Hidden Clues in Land and Property Records - NEW Quicksheet

Land records aren’t just about who owned a piece of ground. They can reveal family relationships, migration paths, neighbors, and even financial trouble. If you’re skipping deeds and property records, you’re missing a major part of your ancestors’ lives.

Get the hidden clues by downloading the Quicksheet PDF at https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/hidden-clues-in-land-and-property-records/

11/10/2025

Ancestry is having an incredible holiday sale right now! $39 for a DNA testing kit OR add $1 and get 3 months of a World Explorer Membership with it. Or add $10 to the original $39 and get 3 months of an All Access Ancestry subscription. These will renew at regular prices so make sure to cancel prior to the end of the 3 months. Go to Ancestry.com to see it more clearly. Offer ends November 20th at 10 am.
————-thanks to Kris and the VGS Scandinavian SIG for this heads up

Save up to 75%*on AncestryDNA offers.

Now with even more regions and incredible detail—just in time for the holidays.

ANCESTRYDNA

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ANCESTRYDNA + WORLD EXPLORER MEMBERSHIP

ONLY $40

ANCESTRYDNA + ALL ACCESS MEMBERSHIP

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AncestryDNA kit required to access these features. If you previously purchased Traits, your access will not be affected.

*Offers end 20 Nov 2025 at 10am ET. Excludes shipping. Package offers are for new and returning subscribers only and not for renewal of current subscriptions. Limit one $1 subscription per user. Your World Explorer subscription will automatically renew at $99.95 or your All Access subscription will automatically renew at $149 every 3 months until you cancel by visiting your Account Settings or by contacting us. See our Renewal and Cancellation Terms for further details.

Ancestry® helps you understand your genealogy. A family tree takes you back generations—the world's largest collection of online family history records makes it easy to trace your lineage.

11/07/2025

Search Military Records for Free Nov 7-13 on Find My Past

Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more - over 10 billion records - start today!

11/04/2025

Attention VGS Members:
Online voting for the positions of Secretary and Treasurer of The Villages Genealogical Society are now open and will close at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, 14 November 2025. Please cast your vote! Here are the instructions:

To cast your ballot please go to the VGS website at https://vgsfl.org/ and log into the Members Only section. When you are logged in you will find the "VGS Officers 2026" link at the top of the Members Only list.

Click on the "VGS Officers 2026" link and the ballot will appear. Next, click on the button next to each candidate's name. Note you must vote for both positions. When you have selected the candidates, click the Register Vote Selections button at the bottom of the page. The page will refresh, and you will get a message stating you voted with the date and time of your vote. If you try to vote a 2nd time you will receive a message saying you already voted noting the date and time of your vote.

10/31/2025

Free Virtual Beginning Genealogy Classes - Nov. 5, 12 & 19 - covering about every aspect of family history research, by the Genealogical Society; PASTFINDERS of South Lake County.
See the Events page at https://pastfindersslc.org/

10/31/2025

Sorry for the late notice--this event starts tomorrow! Keep your eyes peeled, I have been promised new events will follow every week! AND the membership drive has been extended with the discount available thru Nov 30!

Send a message to learn more

10/31/2025

Ancient royalty. Sacred rituals. The world’s oldest mysteries—written in DNA. 🧬

Explore the first chapter of Genes & Screams and meet ten new mummies added just in time for Halloween.

Read Chapter One ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/jn8t3uyw

10/31/2025

https://mailchi.mp/genealogybargains.com/30october2025 Dig up more than candy this Halloween 👻 — MyHeritage is offering FREE access to Death Records from Oct 30–Nov 2. Who knows what skeletons you’ll find in your family tree? 💀 MyHeritage

10/26/2025

We've added 218 new papers to our archives this month. Check out the list and explore this new content today!