Sun City, Arizona FamilySearch Center

12/14/2025

Wishing all our Jewish Twigs and their families a safe & Happy Hanukkah. 🕎

12/14/2025

Just for fun! My mother-in-law played the organ for Dick’s son’s wedding in Paradise Valley. Got that connection?

12/06/2025

This is a tough one! What do YOU do with old photos where you don’t know the people in them? There are good suggestions in the comments.

12/05/2025

Y’all, this is big news if you have New York ancestry. New York is often a black hole for genealogical research, and this frees up so much information. I plan to take advantage of it for my own surname research.

Big news for genealogists and historians! After a four-year legal battle, Reclaim The Records just won access to New York State's death index from 1880-2017 — over 10 million records now available for free at NewYorkDeathIndex.com.
The state's highest court ruled that this public data belongs to the public. Names, death dates, ages, residences, and file numbers are now searchable online, with more data fields potentially coming after additional court review.
New York finally joins its neighboring states in providing free access to vital records. This is a huge win for family history research.

12/04/2025

I feel seen. Do you? You can come work at our center but we’ll only allow you to make a little mess and you can’t keep it there overnight. Full disclaimer.

and why are you in my command center taking photos?!?

11/28/2025

Today I'm grateful for this community. You're the people who understand why finding one marriage record feels like winning the lottery.

Why a single photo can make you cry. Why you'll spend hours hunting for a grave just to say "I found you."

You get it.

Most people don't care about the past. You're preserving it. You're connecting families. You're solving mysteries that matter.

That's rare. That's valuable. That's worth doing.

So thank you for being here. For doing this work. For caring about stories that deserve to be remembered.

Enjoy today with your family—the ones here and the ones you're still searching for.

—Marc

11/27/2025

We do the same in our family, a pile-on kids photo. Be sure to to take family photos today. Happy Thanksgiving!

11/25/2025

This is exciting! Naturalization records can be rich with valuable info, like the town or village your ancestors came from.

Tip of the Week: A database of federal naturalizations has been updated on FamilySearch. Access the index and images at https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/2060123

11/22/2025

This is a true principle for individuals and for us as a nation. Know your origin story!

11/16/2025

Know your origin story! I’m excited to watch the Revolutionary War series beginning tomorrow on PBS. Do you know if you have ancestors who fought in the war and/or lived in the original colonies? Their experience informs ours today.