Today, we are very excited to announce that we have finalized our Series A round of funding with an investment from Foundry Group. Along with this funding, our team welcomes the Foundry Group Managing Director, Seth Levine, to the Mocavo board of directors. We're very excited about our future with the support that Seth and Foundry bring to the company.

Since our launch in March 2011, we have focused on creating the most engaging and social experience in the research of family history. We've already created a custom search engine focused in genealogy, an automated system to send undiscovered content to users,…

The NGS conference is over, and now our thoughts turn to the end of Summer when the Federation of Genealogical Societies will hold their annual conference. This year’s theme is Indians, Squatters, Settlers, and Soldiers in the “Old Southwest.” It will be held August 29 through September 1, 2012 in Birmingham, Alabama.

As always, there is a great program with dozens of interesting sessions. The keynote session should be very interesting. Jay Verkler, former president and CEO of FamilySearch will be speaking about "The Digital Future: It Still Take a Village."

The exhibit hall will be jam-packed with a wide variety of vendors…

One of the biggest announcements at this year’s NGS conference in Cincinnati was Ancestry’s new AncestryDNA service. This new offering increases testing dramatically, and hopes to help people identify more cousins. It will also work to link DNA results to records and trees in the Ancestry.com database.

For those of you with little experience in DNA testing and genealogy, Y-chromosome DNA is passed down from your father. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down from your mother. For this reason men cannot pass down mtDNA and women cannot pass down Y-DNA. Up to this point, testing for genealogical purposes has been limited to Y-…

Well folks, we’ve come to the end of our Remembering Mothers contest. We can’t thank you all enough for your participation! We received some amazing stories and whittled the finalists down to six. Those six submissions received hundreds of votes from our members. We are very pleased to congratulate our winner, Del Ritchhart! Del has won a trip for two to Boston MA to meet with Mocavo's Chief Genealogist, Michael J. Leclerc.

Here is Del's story:

When we had thunder and lightning I always knew I could find my grandmother sitting on the front porch. In fact, at the age of 5 or…

It was another great, long day at NGS. It started with a 7 a.m. VIP breakfast with Family Search. After a day of presentations, meetings, and chatting with our users, it was time to head out to dinner and an evening of research in the wonderful Hamilton County Public Library.

The library staff generously agreed to keep the building open in a “genealogy lock-down” that allowed us to research until 11:00 p.m. Genealogists were allowed to enter the building at 6:30 p.m., about an hour after it closed to the public. I was in the first wave that rushed the seats in…