The following News Release is from FamilySearch.org dated January 15, 2013: FamilySearch added an additional 7 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,747,863 indexed records and images in the Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books collection from 1592-1910, the 1,308,956 indexed records from the United States [...]

If you’re doing Colorado research, your cost for a death certificate just went up. Effective Aug. 1, the cost for death certificates went up to $20 for the first copy and $13 for additional copies of the same record ordered at the same time. This is an increase from $17 for the first copy and [...]

Here is an excerpt from an article out The Gazette, Colorado Springs: Price of Colorado death certificates goes up Wednesday July 31, 2012 11:29 AM The Gazette The price of a death certificate is going up beginning Wednesday to defray the cost of improvements to the electronic records system. The cost for the first copy [...]

The following excerpt is from the July 5, 2012 edition of the Denver Post. The man who has helped safeguard many of Colorado’s most historical documents for nearly a half century has retired from state government. State Archivist Terry Ketelsen, who had worked for the state for 45 years, retired last week at the age [...]

The following U.S.A. vital-records oriented databases have been recently added or updated at FamilySearch.org. This blog covers 76 new and updated entries. We’ve also updated four of our five of the GenealogyBlog Online Database Links Files. See: United States Birth & Christening Records Found at FamilySearch.org United States Marriage Documents & Indexes Found at FamilySearch.org [...]

In 1879, just three years after gaining statehood, Colorado experienced its own gold rush. That year, Thomas Corbett published a directory of Colorado’s know gold, silver, coal, and ore mines. Mine Owners and Mines of the Colorado Gold Rush, by Laurel Michele Wickersheim and Rawlene LeBaron, is an enhanced republishing of that directory. Mine Owners [...]

The most exciting news from the National Genealogical Society Conference in Cincinnati is that volunteers have now indexed over 30% of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census of 3.8 million records in just 37 days. Six states have now gone through the finalizing process (which takes about a week) with Oregon and Virginia going online on [...]

Click on the map to get a graphical view of indexing progress thus far on the 1940 Census. FamilySearch has begun publishing images online from the 1940 U.S. Federal Census to engage the army of volunteers who have been waiting for the chance to begin indexing those names. To explore the digital images or to [...]

The following news release was received from FamilySearch: 4 April 2012: The 1940 U.S. Census is here and the 1940 US Census Community Project has kicked off to a great start! The excitement and enthusiasm for this project is far greater than anything previously seen in the six years that FamilySearch indexing has been available. [...]

The following U.S.A. vital-records oriented databases have been added or updated at FamilySearch.org since January 31st. 15 new data items have been added for nine States. In addition, these updates have been made to U.S. Censuses: 1790, now at 410,887 records and 6,398 browsable images 1800, now at 540,614 records and 18,862 browsable images 1810, [...]

In 1901 the citizens of Colorado Springs placed essays, photographs, a wax recording cylinder, and more into a time capsule for 100 years. The large steel-riveted box stood sealed until opened during a ceremony January 1, 2001. The contents were dedicated to the descendant of those early city inhabitants. One brief letter exemplifies the hopes [...]

The following excerpt is from the August 13, 2011 edition of the Gazette. Tim Blevins, mild-mannered and bespectacled, spends much of his time looking for lost people, ferreting out obscure clues about them and sometimes finding them across oceans or hundreds of years back in time. Blevins is manager of special collections for the Pikes [...]

UNITED STATES TERRITORIAL, SCHOOL CENSUS, AND TAX RECORDS POSTED AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG – UPDATED AS OF 6 May 2013. Colonial, Territorial and State Censuses are of vital importance to genealogists, as they were often taken on non-Federal Decennial census years, taken prior to statehood, or between the Federal Censuses. Thirty-seven states (or what became states) took [...]

FamilySearch.org continues to post additional FREE USA State Census records at the website. The following listing is a current listing, with links. DIGITIZED & INDEXED USA STATE CENSUS IMAGES AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG Colorado State Census 1885 – Images of population schedules listing the inhabitants of the state of Colorado. The 1885 census was taken with the [...]

I’ve been following the progress of for over a year now – and I must say that I’m impressed with what they are doing. The REALLY BIG DEAL about the new records they have posted is that they now have close to 1.5 million Ohio obituary records on the site, obtained from the archives of [...]