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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 [...]

The following is another interesting piece written by my good friend, Tom Fiske.
I have a new reason to give thanks.
Lately I have been researching for a new book I am writing with the help of a retired CIA field operator (although he says they can’t retire; they are either active or [...]

Tom Fiske wrote another interesting piece for you again this week. I found it thought-provoking. Enjoy!
Doing genealogy well often involves knowledge of a country’s conditions and customs and history. I have long wanted to describe the jobs and education of my ancestors, and I found that I needed to know what was going [...]

28 September 2009: Volunteers with Rhode Island roots will be excited about the new indexing projects this week. The Rhode Island 1905 and 1935 State Censuses were added. New international projects for Argentina, Germany, Philippines, Spain, and the U.K. were also added.
Note: the links within the charts won’t work as they are just images [...]

The following are three data sets are recently completed projects that have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a final completion check process in preparation for future publication:

Argentina Censo 1869—Catamarca y La Rioja
Minnesota—1920 U.S. Federal Census
Minnesota Probate Court Wills 1849–1918

Current FamilySearch Indexing Projects, Record Language, & [...]

There are many new, upcoming, and completed indexing projects to report in this update from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch. Twelve of the projects below are new (see Current Projects). Included are three Belgian and two Argentina projects. The New York 1892 State Census project is exciting! New York has some of the best [...]

March 4, 2009: The FamilySearch indexing application is available in three new languages:

Italian,
Portuguese, and
Russian.

These languages are in addition to English, French, German, and Spanish. They have current indexing projects in all of these languages except Portuguese. They will be introducing a Portuguese project in the near future.
Volunteers can help with any of the [...]

The following Family Search Indexing update information was received from Paul Nauta, Public Affairs Manager for FamilySearch.
February 6, 2009: FamilySearch volunteers wrapped up 14 online indexing projects already in 2009 and continue to make good progress on the 38 open projects. There are two new projects from the 1930 Mexico Census this week, and the [...]

A federal judge has ordered Russia to preserve historic documents sought by members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said Thursday he plans to order Russia to preserve the documents & return any that already may have been removed from state archives.
Chabad is suing Russia to recover thousands of books and documents. [...]