The following is from FamilySearch, April 2, 2013: FamilySearch has added 23.9 million indexed records and images this week with new browsable image collections from Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, England, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 19,206,333 images from the new United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920, collection, the [...]

FamilySearch added an additional 16.3 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,984,100 records for the United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards from 1917-1918, the 2,056,187 added to U.S., California, Probate Estate Files from 1833-1991, and the 1,610,053 added to the new British Columbia, [...]

The following is from the September 11, 2012 edition of http://www.bbc.co.uk: A new social ancestry website created by two Londoners is helping South Asians reconnect with their past. “My grandmother got Alzheimer’s and so all the great stories that she used to tell me… they just disappeared. “And then when I tried to trace back [...]

The following information is from FamilySearch.org: 76 million much-anticipated state census, naturalization, immigration, and vital records were added this week for 22 states, including Ohio, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Since partnering with the National Archives of Italy to digitally preserve and index its civil registration, more than 24 million images have been published [...]

HYDERABAD [INDIA]: The Andhra Pradesh State Archive and Research Institute (APSARI), the only such centre in the State, is in danger of losing some of its most valuable archive – manuscripts, documents and books dating back to 1407 AD. Most of these historical chronicles are not only brittle, but also damaged. “We have been asking [...]

The following information was received from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch: The latest free collection updates might just have what you’re seeking! What a grab bag of records added this week! Let’s see—for its online patrons’ free viewing pleasure, internationally, FamilySearch added church records from Costa Rico and Mexico, Bishop’s Transcripts and Poor Law records from [...]

Srinagar, Mar 4: The Archives Department in Kashmir houses some of the vital documents about Kashmir’s history, culture and heritage. But for the Jammu and Kashmir Government, they seem to be worth nothing, not even preservation. A cursory look at Kashmir Repository, located inside the dilapidated building of the Archives Department in Old Secretariat here, [...]

The following was received from Paul Nauta at FamilySearch.org: Brazil, England, India, Italy, Nicaragua, Spain, and Wales Records Added Also new U.S. records for Delaware, New Hampshire, Texas, and Virginia More fascinating collections were published this week online at FamilySearch.orgó39 million new records, to be exact. The England and Wales 1901 Census will certainly be [...]

The following information was received this morning from Paul Nauta with FamilySearch: There were over 150 new collections added or enhanced this week at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch volunteers indexed over 120 million records — over 300 million new names — from original source documents to accomplish this great feat. The massive release was announced this past [...]

It is surely the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived. India is to issue each of its 1.2 billion citizens, millions of whom live in remote villages and possess no documentary proof of existence, with cyber-age biometric identity cards. The Government in Delhi recently created the Unique Identification Authority, a new state department charged with [...]

There’s an interesting article in the April 24, 2009 edition of the Christian Science Monitor dealing with a revolt on the part of a few Indian children whose parents wished to marry them off at the ripe old age of 12 years – even though 18 is the legal age for girls to marry in [...]

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has started compiling the old records of births and deaths registered in Delhi, India. It dug out files from the Delhi, India – City Zone (Chandni Chowk area) and Karol Bagh Zone offices last year. Over a hundred years old, these files were written in Urdu with a quill [...]

Rajo Devi, a 70-year-old Indian woman is now able to claim that she is the oldest woman in the world to give birth to a child. Dr. Anurag Bishnoi of the National Fertility Center in northern Haryana, delivered the baby girl, conceived through in vitro fertilization. The father is 72. Hmmm. I have to wonder [...]