We’re setting up an exhibit for Family Roots Publishing Company in the Heritage Room (across from the elevators) at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel. We plan to open up about 2 pm this afternoon and will be open tonight until 10 pm. We’ll be there from about 11 am until 10 pm Tuesday through Thursday [...]
It’s less than three weeks until the Arizona Family History Expo! It will be held on January 22 and 23 at the Mesa Convention Center, 263 N. Center Street, Mesa, Arizona 85201.
Ancestry.com’s C.E.O. Tim Sullivan will be the keynote speaker.
I will be presenting several lectures. My topics will be:
State and Territorial Censuses [...]
The following news release was received from Claire LaBeaux, Public Relations Director, OneGreatFamily.com:
November 23, 2009, Springville UT – Does your family tree include any of the 102 passengers who braved stormy seas aboard the Mayflower? Did your ancestors celebrate the first Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims and Native Americans? At [...]
Family Roots Publishing is shipping the soft cover editions of Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Kingdom of Prussia - Province of Sachsen II, RB Merseburg today. This is volume 28 of the series. Hard cover books will ship next week. Following is the book description and town index.
Map Guide to German Parish Registers [...]
This is our second day at the California Family History Expo. I understand that there are over 300 folks here at the Redding Convention Center. We had a busy day at the Family Roots Publishing booth yesterday. I spoke on State Censuses and Substitutes besides, so was kept quite busy. Bill covered the booth on [...]
I ran onto an article about the upcoming census in a newspaper while eating dinner at a restaurant in Redding, California this evening. It looks to me like an all-out effort is about to be untaken to make sure that the 2010 Federal Decennial census questionnaire is read, answered, and the data collected as accurately [...]
There’s a good article by Antoinette Kelly posted at the ABC News website about Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak’s finding President Obama’s Irish roots. Following is an excerpt:
Chief Family Historian for Ancestry.com Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak got the assignment of a lifetime when it was discovered in 2007 that future President of the U.S. Barack Obama [...]
Museums rarely stay static. They continue to collect - and grow in the process. The same goes for the King’s Own Border Regiment Museum. However, they need money to make this all happen. Following is an excerpt from a much longer article.
The King’s Own Border Regiment museum has announced plans to move from its current [...]
The following news release was written by Geoff Rasmussen with Millennia Corporation:
SURPRISE, Arizona – September 1, 2009 – Millennia Corporation today announced that its family tree software, Legacy Family Tree, has received official certification from FamilySearch.
Users of Legacy will soon be able to synchronize with, backup, and publish their information to FamilySearch’s Family Tree. [...]
A short time ago, I found that “Find My Past, Limited,” will now become “brightsolid online publishing limited.” Since findmypast.com was purchased by Brightsolid Limited in December of 2007, they have increased their presence in the family history market, operating 1911census.co.uk, ScotlandsPeople and Discover My Past Scotland.
It has thus been decided to change the name [...]
The following is from NEHGS eNews, Volume 11, Number 5:
The National Genealogical Society (NGS) is seeking nominations from the entire genealogical community for persons whose achievements or contributions have made an impact on the field. This educational program increases appreciation of the high standards advocated and achieved by committed genealogists whose work paved the way [...]
Genealogists are very fond of Googling. However, we must be careful, for it seems that although Google’s founders are very environmentally aware guys, the service that they offer does require energy - and that produces carbon emissions, and…, oh well…
According to research done by Google, it seems that “a Google search uses just [...]
To answer my question posed in the title, “I doubt it.”
We all know that the infamous John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, was killed in a Virginia barn on April 26, 1865. He is said to be buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. Most of us see no reason to dispute his burial in [...]
They broke ground for the new Mid-Continent Library’s Mid-West Genealogy Center in Independence, Missouri, yesterday. The new 52,000 square foot facility may rival the famed Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when finished. Congratulations to my friends, Janice Schulz, Debbie Strodtman and the staff at the Mid-Continent Library, as well as all those [...]
