An article (The Republican/MassLive.com) by John P. O’Connor, about a fairly amazing database he put together to aid genealogists might interest you (and maybe generate some interest in people doing the same in other communities)

I’m not sure what to say about this one, so I’m going to let it speak for itself. The article is at local6.com, a Central Florida TV station (WKMG).

Mark J. Price wrote an article in the Akron Beacon Journal (OH), about a genealogist who started out to document her grandfather’s genealogy, and ended up writing the history of a colony of Cornish immigrants from the early 1900s.

Sarah Slavick wrote an article in the Missourian (Columbia, Missouri), Conference helps uncover past, about the Missouri State Genealogical Society’s 25th annual conference.
It just so happens that Cyndi Howells was the keynote speaker (Cyndi as in Cyndi’s List). It mentioned some of her family’s background (including her great-great-great-grandfather, a Union soldier who escaped from [...]

An article at The Staunton News Leader (Central Shenandoah Valley, VA) by Christina Murphy mentions a farm and house that has been in the family since 1745. In the United States, that has to be close to a record (if it’s not a record).
Excerpt from the article:
The community itself is as old as Frances [...]

A neat little article (Dallas Morning News) by Lloyd Bockstruck, supervisor of the genealogy section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas, about some Revolutionary War records from Pennsylvania.

Another article (which is mentioned in the one about JK Rowling) from the Times Online (timesonline.co.uk), by Lois Rogers.

An article about a genealogist researching JK Rowling’s ancestry, at the Times Online (timesonline.co.uk) by Camillo Fracassini and Lois Rogers, shows that JK Rowling is in fact, a true Scot (and not just an honorary one).