The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added more than 1.7 million index records and images this week from Austria, Brazil, China, Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 369,729 index records and images from the U.S., North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979, collection, and the 596,078 [...]

FamilySearch has added 2.1 million indexed records and images this week from BillionGraves, Canada, Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 815,732 index record and images from the BillionGraves Index collection, and the 753,021 images from the U.S., Washington, County Records, 1856- 2009, collection. See the [...]

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 [...]

The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added 1.7 million indexed records and images this week with new browsable image collections from Austria, Paraguay, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 13,110 images from the new Arizona, Maricopa, Mesa City Cemetery Records, 1885-1960, collection and the 105,745 indexed records and images from the [...]

The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added 10.5 million indexed records and images in the last two weeks. The largest portion of this update includes the 8,613,673 images added to the New York Probate Records from 1629 to 1971, which increases the images available in this collection by 63 percent. Other notable collection updates [...]

The following excerpt is from an article published in the January 20, 2013 edition of stuff.co.nz: The Jewish community has taken pity on one of the youths who desecrated graves at a cemetery in Auckland with Nazi symbols – causing worldwide outrage – and is even offering to pay his university tuition fees so he [...]

FamilySearch added an additional 6.4 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,034,803 records for the Netherlands, Zeeland Province, Church Records from 1527-1907, the 1,436,121 added from Italy Civil Registrations from 1824-1941, and the 1,069,308 added to the new Saskatchewan, Canada, collections from 1846-1957. Other new [...]

The following excerpt is from the August 23, 2012 edition of stuff.co.nz: A mass resurrection may soon take place at a Gisborne cemetery. Gisborne District Council will consider a request today from the local branch of the Genealogical Society to dig up more than 80 headstones that were buried in a trench at the Makaraka [...]

The following teaser is from an article in the 21 August 2012 edition of Voxt.co.nz: Auckland Libraries has a large and detailed piece of family history that it desperately wants to reunite with its owner. The family tree, which has been intricately documented on an A2 (large poster-sized) sheet of paper, was found in the [...]

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 [...]

California Collections Win This Week with 24 Million New Records – Records for 14 countries added FamilySearch added 31 million new, free records online this past week for Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Italy, Micronesia, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, and the U.S. What a bonus for those with California roots! [...]

A broad range of records were added to FamilySearch.org this week from 20 countries, notably Australia, Austria, Canada (Saskatchewan), Chile, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Germany, England, Dominican Republic, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Slovakia, Spain, Venezuela, and the U.S.A. The U.S. additions include a variety of records from California, Illinois, Indiana, North [...]

The following news release was written by FamilySearch.org staff: 21 September 2011: Among the 16 million records added to FamilySearch.org this week, over six million are from the United States, including new collections from California, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, and Vermont. Additionally, five million new Civil Registration and Catholic Church records from Mexico [...]

August 26-27, 2011 – Hamilton, New Zealand The New Zealand Society of Genealogists is holding its annual nationwide Family History Fair at the Claudelands Events Centre. for more information, see: www.nzfamilyhistoryfair.org.nz Check out the GenealogyBlog Genealogy Events Calendars by clicking on the following links: 2011 GenealogyBlog Genealogy Event Calendar (97 entries) From July 20, 2011 [...]

The following item was just posted on the Gladstone Observer website. Hmmm… What I difference a few little letters can make… A 5.4 magnitude quake has hit near Bowen Queensland, and was felt from Airlie beach, down to Townsville. Just eighteen minutes later, a 5.2 magnitude quake hit Christchurch in New Zealand. According to the [...]