The following ws received from Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage.com: In honor of Memorial Day next week, MyHeritage is granting free access to millions of military records from their most popular collections. The records can be accessed from here. The free offer ends on May 28. The collections will help you journey back in time to [...]
So – it’s now longer a rumor… The following was received from Matthew Deighton at Ancestry.com: World’s Largest Online Family History Resource Sponsors TV Series with Personal Look Inside the Ancestry of Beloved Celebrities PROVO, Utah, May 21, 2013– Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, announces it has teamed up with TLC, Shed [...]
The following teaser is from an article posted in the May 15, 2013 edition of NewsDemocratLeader.com: Logan County, Kentucky: In March, Logan’s magistrates discussed renovating portions of the old county jail on Fourth Street in Russellville. The Archives and Genealogical Society now calls the historic structure home. Problems have been surfacing with rain getting into [...]
The following excerpt is from an article posted in the May 17, 2013 edition of TheAtlantic.com: …If you are the Richard III Society, your answer would be (e). After the discovery of the remains of Richard III in February, a professor at the Society, Caroline Wilkinson, put the new evidence about the king’s body — [...]
The following teaser is from an article posted in the May 17, 2013 edition of Canada.com: A time-yellowed, 439-year-old baptismal registry from 16th century France, recently found to contain long-sought clues about the birth and family history of the famed New World explorer Samuel de Champlain, has arrived in Canada to help mark a major [...]
The following teaser is from an article posted at the May 18, 2013 edition of Boston.com. Richard Stower, former minister of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Scituate, has published “A History of The First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts: Its Life and Times.” The book follows the congregation that was gathered in 1634 [...]
Created as a “200th Anniversary Research Special,” Tracing Your War of 1812 Ancestors, covers resources for the United States, Canada, and British research. Moorshead Magazines, publishers of Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, and History Magazine, have published this special volume in memory of, and to provide assistance in researching, the War of 1812. This 82 page [...]
PROVO, Utah, April 17, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ancestry.com LLC will release financial results for its first quarter 2013 on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at approximately 2:00 p.m. MT (4:00 p.m. ET). Following the release the Company will host a conference call at 3:00 p.m. MT (5:00 p.m. ET). A live webcast of the conference [...]
The following is from Business Wire: Updated version of world’s most popular free family history software now syncs with online and mobile, opens new channels for the discovery of historical records and is available for the first time also in Chinese, Japanese and Korean April 17, 2013 – PROVO, Utah & TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE) [...]
Join us this Friday evening, and Saturday, April 19 & 20 at the UGA Spring Conference – to be held at the Woods Cross High School. Click here for more information. FRIDAY – April 19 A special program has been added this year – and that is the Friday, April 19 – 7:00 PM evening [...]
The following is from Ancestry.com. Click on the image for free access to Marriage Records at Ancestry.com through April 21, 2013.
As I wrote earlier this week, Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Brandenburg II, Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt an der Oder (Volume 42) is now in print, and shipping. All volumes for which Family Roots Publishing had standing orders have been shipped and should arrive within a week or so. This [...]
The following excerpt is from an article posted in the 1 April 2013 edition of the Deseret News. The author, Alexis Jones, details some of the tips on using your Smart Phone for recording family history that Susan Kitchens gave out in her lecture (Recording and Preserving Family Stories Using Your iOS and Android Device) [...]
From Erie to Panama, American Canals played a vital historical and economical role in the growth of the United States and cities throughout the country; especially, in the eastern states were canals were in use long before the iron horse came speeding along the industrial era. In 1972 the American Canal Society was formed with [...]
The following U.S.A. & Canadian vital-records oriented databases have been recently added or updated at FamilySearch.org. This blog updates all five of the Online Database groups (see below) through 15 February 2013. We’ve also updated all five of the GenealogyBlog Online Database Links Files. See: United States Birth & Christening Records Found at FamilySearch.org United [...]
