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The Vital Records found at the Family Search beta website continues to grow. Millions of birth, marriage, and death records — both indexes and digitized documents can be found at the site. As of August 8, 2010, I count 64,735,265 records for United States vital records, covering 33 states and the District of [...]

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 Baxter County Historical & Genealogical Society [Arkansas] has posted an excellent new Website at www.baxtercountyhistory.org. The society will add additional information as well as photos dealing with the Casey House & Rapp’s Barren soon.
Check it out.

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 [...]

Over several days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers from a eighteen states. The majority of the papers posted the last few days are dated in the 1930s. Again, those interested in the early years of the depression in these areas will enjoy this data.
I am pleased to again announce that the folks at NewspaperARCHIVE.com [...]

Over several days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers from 19 states. The majority of the papers posted the last few days are dated toward the end of the 1920s and Early 1932. Those interested in the stock market crash and the early years of the depression in these areas will enjoy this data.
I am [...]

The following excerpt is from an extensive article about the history of Tontitown, Arkansas, as well as a new local history book about the community titled, “So Big, This Little Place.” Read the full article by Trish Hollenbeck in the June 15, 2009 edition of the Northwest Arkansas Times.

“So Big, This Little Place” [is] [...]

4 June 2009: The following four new indexing projects were added this week:

Jamaica, Trelawny Births, 1878–1930
Mexico, Censo de 1930—Mexico
Rhode Island—1920 U.S. Federal Census
Vermont—1920 U.S. Federal Census

Volunteers can register and start immediately at Indexing.FamilySearch.org.
Recently Completed Projects
Recently completed projects have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a [...]

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, & [...]

A bullet-pierced skull, along with a curious note, found on the shelves of a pawnshop is now being studied to attempt to determine if it may that of a Mountain Meadows Massacre victim. Following is an excerpt from an interesting AP article by Jennifer Dobner. The article itself is extensive.
SALT LAKE CITY - [...]

Thanks to Paul Nauta for the following press release:

SALT LAKE CITY—FamilySearch announced today it has published millions of records from Southern states to its rapidly growing, free online collection. The collection includes both digital images and indexes. Millions of death records from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida were the most recent additions. Viewers can [...]

In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers. While compiling this list, I noticed that the time period of about 1925 through 1929 is prevalent in these posts. Eighteen states are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. Hmmm… Have I [...]

The Baxter County [Arkansas] Historical & Genealogical Society voted a few months ago to list the historic Rollins Hospital building for sale, said Jennifer Baker, president of the historical and genealogical society. The group plans to meet this month and likely will choose a real estate company to list the building, she said.
The building at [...]

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 [...]

The following news release was received from Paul Nauta, FamilySearch:
7 April 2009: FamilySearch added over 16 million new indexed records and almost 500,000 new digital images this week to its Record Search pilot (see chart below).
Seven new states were added to the 1920 U.S. Census index (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, [...]